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Celebrate Buddha Purnima by visiting India's holiest Buddhist monasteries. These religious sites are connected to turning ...

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Silencing and capturing universities and the free press—both of them crucial sources of knowledge essential to democratic ...

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Today the concept of academic freedom may seem obvious to Americans. But the roots of academic freedom, which can be traced ...

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