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Commentary

The Myth of Men’s Full-Time Employment

February 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Men’s labor force participation has been steadily declining since the 1970s, and workers are experiencing greater labor market precarity – that is, shorter job spells, greater job insecurity and more long-term unemployment. Only 41% of late baby boomer men – those who were between 14 and 21 years old in 1979 – worked steadily and continuously, which we defined as working almost every week of the year between ages 27 and 49.

Republicans and Democrats Consider Each Other Immoral No Matter What

February 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

How a political opponent acted didn’t change participants’ harsh moral judgments.

Both Republicans and Democrats regarded people with opposing political views as less moral than people in their own party, even when their political opposites acted fairly or kindly toward them, according to experiments. Even participants who self-identified as only moderately conservative or liberal made the same harsh moral judgments about those on the other side of the political divide.

Why Florida Is Wrong to Have Downgraded Sociology in College

February 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Studying sociology helps you understand how society works.

The American Sociological Association’s current president and a professor of sociology and public policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst explains why Florida’s decision to reduce the number of students enrolled in sociology courses is both disturbing and an opportunity to help the public better understand the academic discipline.

The Two-State Solution Is Dead

February 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Netanyahu has only been pretending to pay lip service to a two-state solution. (DonkeyHotey)

The simple fact is the number of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem) – now about 700,000, who live alongside three million Palestinians – means there is not much space left for a Palestinian state. The only way space could be made for another state would be if the government were to dismantle the settlements. That’s not going to happen.

MAGA Has Taylor Swift’s Number

February 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Clearly, Taylor Swift hates America, practices mind control, is corrupting the NFL and is an emissary from the Deep State, but at least people like Stephen Miller, Matt Gaetz and Mike Crispi know the score, and are saving us from the cabal.

Trump’s Control of the GOP Is Bad for Democracy

February 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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As former President Donald Trump edges closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, research has shown that a second Trump presidency is likely to damage American democracy even more than his first term did. The reason has less to do with Trump and his ambitions than with how power dynamics have shifted within the Republican Party.

Race Is a Theme of the 2024 Election. But It’s An American Tradition.

February 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Donald Trump’s increasingly anti-immigrant campaign is steeped in race.

The centrality of race to our politics is clear in the current presidential campaign. The U.S. is not now “post racial,” free from racial prejudices or discrimination, nor has it ever been. Nor is it easy to argue seriously that white people are more discriminated against than Black Americans.

‘Look for a Reversal in a Fairly Short Period of Time’: Trump Will Stay on Ballot

February 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Even a day before the oral arguments, a line had formed outside the Supreme Court to sit in on the court’s session.

To get the rare perspective of a former federal judge on the oral arguments at the Supreme Court, The Conversation U.S. spoke with John E. Jones III. He is the president of Dickinson College and a retired federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in 2002. The case is about former President Donald Trump’s claim that he should be allowed on the presidential ballot in Colorado – and other states – because the language of the 14th Amendment does not apply to him.

School Board’s Christy Chong’s ‘Cause’ Letter to Fire Attorney Is a Tissue of Fabrications, Petty Grievances and Cluelessness

February 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

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The six “causes” Flagler County School Board member Christy Chong listed as reasons to fire attorney Kristy Gavin come nowhere near “just cause” as defined in Gavin’s contract. Rather, they’re petty, inaccurate, gossipy and falsified grievances that have more to do with Chong being out of her depth, her embarrassment, her hatred for the press and her contempt for transparency and the public than anything to do with the quality of Gavin’s work in nearly two decades of representing the board. 

Nonwhite People Are Drastically Underrepresented in Local Government

February 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Across cities in the U.S., one commonality stands out: Nearly universally, the percentage of elected officials who are white is higher than the white share of the population. This overrepresentation persists from the early 1990s to more recent years among mayors.

Trump Does Not Have the ‘Divine Right of Kings To Evade Criminal Accountability’

February 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Donald Trump speaks after the appeals court hearing on his claim of immunity from prosecution on Jan. 9, 2024, in Washington.

Trump can be criminally prosecuted for the actions he took to overturn the 2020 election. Whether the case makes it to trial or results in a conviction, what happens to all the other pending cases involving Trump, and whether the former president is returned to the White House, are unanswered questions so far. The Supreme Court will surely be asked to provide some of those answers.

Biden Against the Poison of the Latest Lost Cause

February 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

President Joe Biden at Mother Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina on Jan. 8, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Biden’s Mother Emanuel speech should rank with some of the most important speeches in our history. Biden acknowledged that he is not only running against the GOP front-runner Donald Trump but also against a “second lost cause” myth.

Do Plastic Bag Bans and Fines Actually Reduce Waste?

February 4, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Most people don’t set out to use more plastic. So the best solutions help consumers achieve their goals and make access to reusable bags easier. The key is to determine the biggest impediment to shoppers bringing reusable bags.

Black Journalists Have Always Known What These Confederate Monuments Really Stood For

February 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Confederate leaders Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis are depicted in this carving on Stone Mountain, Ga.

Defenders of Confederate monuments like Donald Trump have argued that the statues should be left standing to educate future generations. But since the end of the Civil War, journalists at Black newspapers have told a different story. The statues were never designed to tell the truth about the Civil War. Instead, the monuments were built to enshrine the myth of the “Lost Cause,” the false claim that white Southerners nobly fought for states’ rights – and not to preserve slavery.

Florida’s Sunshine Law Is Dying

February 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Democratic Sen. J. Emory “Red” Cross of Gainesville pioneered Florida's modern Sunshine Law. He would not recognize it today. (Florida Memory)

The battle, mostly lost, is not those individual exemptions to the Sunshine Law. It’s the totality of what’s been lost over the years: a presumption of openness has been replaced by the reverse, thanks to an unspoken but very effective bureaucracy of secrecy by process. The secrecy isn’t explicit. Most of your average government gatekeepers would never think of themselves as suppressing information. But the rules they have in place, allowing them to delay, obfuscate, censor and charge a ton of money before they comply, amount to the same thing: secrecy as standard operating procedure. 

What If He Stood Down?

February 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

It's not too late to call it off. (White House)

Practically, the odds of Biden changing course now look small. The two main reasons for pressing ahead haven’t changed since Biden announced his reelection bid last April. First, Biden is the only candidate who’s proven that he can beat Trump. Second, there’s no obvious heir apparent.

Why Taylor Swift Is an Anti-Hero to the GOP

February 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Travis Kelce celebrates with Taylor Swift on Jan. 28, 2024, after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC championship game.

Public opinion data suggests that most Americans think Taylor Swift is good for the NFL. But with her beau Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs heading to a fourth Super Bowl in five years, and with Swift herself reportedly preparing for a journey across the globe to cheer him on in the big game, the right-wing talk machine has gone into overdrive.

Challenging Medieval Art’s Dark, Gloomy Reputation

January 31, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The Middle Ages as typically imagined in cinema, television, literature and Romantic paintings are dark and sinister, plagued by the diseases that ravaged Europe, with filthy, unhealthy cities and buildings. Research by Medieval scholars in recent decades – combined with new digital reconstruction techniques – has shattered these myths, presenting us with a wholly different picture.

The New York Times v. ChatGPT

January 30, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

New York Times v. chatGPT

On Dec. 27, 2023, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that the company committed willful copyright infringement through its generative AI tool ChatGPT. The Times claimed both that ChatGPT was unlawfully trained on vast amounts of text from its articles and that ChatGPT’s output contained language directly taken from its articles.

Bad News About OCD: Much Higher Chance of Earlier Death

January 29, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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People with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD for short, are 82% more likely to die earlier – from natural or unnatural causes – than people without the condition, a new study reveals. OCD affects about 2% of the population. The disorder significantly impairs daily life, affecting relationships, social activities and the general ability to function.

How Much Influence Does Iran Have Over Its Proxy Armies?

January 28, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A billboard depicts the leaders of the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In Middle Eastern geopolitics, Iran’s strategy of aligning with violent nonstate actors – notably Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen – influences the regional balance of power. But to what extent?

Western Moral Credibility Is Dying Along With Thousands of Gaza’s Palestinians

January 27, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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The West claims it champions a liberal rules-based international order and human rights on the global stage. This rhetoric now appears completely disingenuous to most of the Global South. Even as Russia escalates its violence against civilians and infrastructure in Ukraine, most Global South states find the American condemnation of Russia grotesquely hypocritical as the United States supports Israel’s war in Gaza and attacks on civilians that are even more devastating than Russia’s.

This Hyper Talk of a Border ‘Invasion’ Is an Old American Playbook

January 27, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

French Canadian boys working in a New Bedford, Mass., textile factory in 1912. (Library of Congress.)

With persecution, poverty, and climate change driving large numbers of migrants to the southern border, some in politics and the media are again pushing the panic button and purposely but inaccurately using words like “invasion” to describe problems at the border.

Holocaust Memorial Day and the Unsung, Ordinary People Who Made a Difference

January 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Holocaust Memorial iN berlin. (Eric Titcombe)

The theme for the 2024 Holocaust Memorial Day, which takes place on January 27, is the “fragility of freedom”. This year is an especially poignant one, marking 80 years since the deportation and murder of Hungarian Jews, when the gas chambers of Auschwitz were working at full capacity, and also the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.

How AI Threatens Free Speech

January 25, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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A serious danger which gets surprisingly little media attention is the impact new artificial intelligence technologies are likely to have on freedom of expression. And, in particular, how they’re able to undermine some of the most foundational legal tenets that protect free speech.

Transgender Regret? Research Points to No Such Thing.

January 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Gender-affirming surgeries give transgender people the opportunity to align their bodies with their gender identity.

Evidence suggests that less than 1% of transgender people who undergo gender-affirming surgery report regret. That proportion is even more striking when compared to the fact that 14.4% of the broader population reports regret after similar surgeries. For example, studies have found that between 5% and 14% of all women who receive mastectomies to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer say they regretted doing so.

Remember Me: More Pets Are Getting a Mention in Obituaries

January 23, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Over the years, more obituaries have grown longer, providing more room to mention a person’s pets, hobbies and passions. (© FlaglerLive)

By the mid-2000s, roughly one to four per cent of obituaries mentioned pets. Since 2015, this number has climbed as high as 15 per cent. As obituaries grow longer and more detailed, it only seems fair that animals get some attention. It has become more common to mention someone’s pet, or love of animals. Passages also grow more detailed. Beyond the pet’s name, we learn whether they were a “hoity-toity poodle,” a “loyal companion” or “the best dog ever.”

Israel Now Ranks Among the World’s Leading Jailers of Journalists

January 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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At the top of the list sits China with 44 in detention, followed by Myanmar (43), Belarus (28), Russia (22), and Vietnam (19). Israel and Iran share sixth place with 17 each. The journalists Israel detained were all from the occupied West Bank, all Palestinian, and all arrested after Hamas’s horrific attacks from Gaza on October 7. But we know very little about why they were detained.

Misinformation: Fact-Checking Journalism’s Evolution and Impact

January 21, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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A series of studies published over recent years have shown that, while fact-checks will, of course, not alter an individual’s long-held worldview, they can and do have “significantly positive overall influence” on reader’s factual understanding and “reduce belief in misinformation, often durably so.” Two recent studies have shown that so-called “warning labels” attached to online content “effectively reduce belief and spread of misinformation” and do so “even for those most distrusting of fact-checkers.”

DeSantis Is Kaput

January 21, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Something is terribly wrong here: Iowa, a far-off land of snow and butter, failed to give our Ronbo a win. Yet he did everything right. He visited all 99 counties. He shook hooves with every single cow. He displayed the depth of his feelings toward his wife when he gave her a warm handshake after one of the debates.

The Child Tax Credit Changed My Life. Bring It Back.

January 21, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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A myth exists in America that financial well-being follows if we just work hard and make good choices. But it’s not that simple. At some point, most of us face unforeseen obstacles — from physical or mental health challenges to lost jobs, economic downturns, and natural disasters. Along with low wages and other structural causes of poverty, that puts financial well-being out of reach for about 140 million people in this country.

Is America Enduring a Slow Civil War? A Look at the ‘Undertow.’

January 20, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

No, that's not Iowa. It was a standard Trump rally repeating the Big Lie. (Facebook)

Jeff Sharlet’s “The Undertow” tells how the cultural divisions in American society could allow such a thing as the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters to happen. (And how, despite everything that’s happened since, he remains the Republican frontrunner for the 2024 presidential race.) Sharlet believes that event is part of a “slow civil war” that threatens the future of the American republic.

Why Extreme Cold Happens in a Warming World

January 19, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Extreme cold-weather events often occur in association with changes to another river of air high above the jet stream: the stratospheric polar vortex, a great stream of air moving around the North Pole in the middle of the stratosphere. When this stratospheric vortex becomes disrupted or stretched in part due to warming, it can distort the jet stream as well, pushing it southward in some areas and causing cold air outbreaks.

In Free Florida, the Dictionary Is Dangerous to Your Children

January 19, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

A simple pleasure Florida tends to deny its schoolchildren. "Out to Lunch," above, is by J. Seward Johnson Jr. (© FlaglerLive)

A few people who call themselves parents but are really frustrated bullies who want everyone else to lead the miserable lives they do, at least when they’re not engaging in threesomes, have successfully made black holes of Florida’s school and classroom libraries and further marginalized slews of children whose one solace might have been that one book. 

Your Laundry Is a Top Source of Microplastic Pollution

January 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The most common microplastics in the environment are microfibers – plastic fragments shaped like tiny threads or filaments. Microfibers come from many sources, including cigarette butts, fishing nets and ropes, but the biggest source is synthetic fabrics, which constantly shed them.

Airstrikes in Yemen Risk Only Strengthening Houthis

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Houthi supporters rally in Yemen following U.S.-U.K. airstrikes.

The Houthis stand to gain politically from these U.S.-U.K. attacks as they support a narrative that the group has been cultivating: that they are freedom fighters fighting Western imperialism in the Muslim world.

Stop the LGBTQ Cheap Shots

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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There are some feel-good bills and cheap shots that require no courage to vote for and bring the political bonus of being difficult for an opponent to argue against this summer, when most legislators will be back home running for re-election. And no topic makes for easier demagoguery than sex, specifically any activity that makes strait-laced Republicans a little squeamish.

70 Years After Brown vs. Board of Education, Deep Segregation Persists

January 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In June 2023, the Supreme Court ended most race-conscious college admissions efforts. The decision followed the Covid pandemic, which exacerbated racial inequalities in the U.S.. Politicians and school boards have banned or removed books by authors of color from school libraries and restricted teaching about racism in U.S. history. These setbacks amid the current political climate make finally realizing the full promise of Brown more urgent.

Scattershot in 2016, Trump’s Iowa Campaign Was All Business This Time

January 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Donald Trump has mounted a major effort to teach people how to caucus for him.

Attention to organizing is a shift for the Trump campaign. Today, it looks nothing like the scattershot campaign from 2016, the only other time Trump has waged a nomination battle in the state. Trump’s nod to organizing is noteworthy and is at odds with his brand, which is more focused on stirring the pot and agitating, rather than painstakingly building an infrastructure.

Proposed Building Moratorium Addressing Flooding Concerns: An Exchange Between Home Builders and Pontieri

January 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Members of the Flagler Home Builders Association have been writing Palm Coast City Council members to urge them to vote No on a construction moratorium City Council member Theresa Pontieri has proposed for 60 to 90 days on so-called “infill” lots in the city’s sections platted by ITT. What follows is an exchange that took place today between a home builder and Pontieri on the proposal. The council meets Tuesday and may take up the issue then, depending on other developments.

The Check MLK Wanted Cashed for the ‘Riches of Freedom and the Security of Justice’ Is Still Bouncing

January 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The African American community is experiencing record low unemployment, record highs in income and educational attainment, and has seen a massive decline in income poverty since the 1960s. Despite all that, the check for racial economic equality is still bouncing. Without intervention, it will take centuries for Black wealth to catch up with white wealth in this country.

Was Going to Space a Good Idea?

January 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, mission specialist, participates in a spacewalk a few meters away from the cabin of the space shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984. He is using a nitrogen-propelled hand-controlled manned maneuvering unit (NASA)

Nations are competing to exploit lunar and asteroid mineral resources. Private corporations and space billionaires are increasingly being touted as the way forward. After the Moon, Mars is the next world in line for “conquest”. The contemporary movement known as longtermism promotes living on other planets as insurance against existential risk, in a far future where humans (or some form of them) spread to fill the galaxies.

Welcome to the Old South, The Myth that Refuses to Die

January 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

A Confederate memorial stands on the lawn in front of the Florida Historic Capitol building on April 27, 2022. (Danielle J. Brown)

In Florida, we prefer not to discuss ‘slavery’ unless we are enlightening the ignorant about how it was Not That Bad. You have only to read Miss Margaret Mitchell’s brilliant and perfectly accurate novel to see the Truth of this.

How Coca-Cola Took Africa

January 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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A new book called Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African tells the story of how the world’s most famous carbonated drink conquered the continent. It’s a tale of marketing gumption and high politics and is the product of years of research by critical writing lecturer Sara Byala, who researches histories of heritage, sustainability and the ways in which capitalist systems intersect with social and cultural forces in Africa.

NRA Scandal and The Importance of ‘Designated Contrarians’ on Boards

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Nonprofit boards should require their members to take turns serving as “designated contrarians.” When it’s their turn for this role, board members would be responsible for asking critical questions and pushing for deeper debate about organizational decisions.

Elise Stefanik’s Immoral Compass, and Ours

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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When Rep. Elise Stefanik grilled then-Harvard President Claudine Gay about her “moral clarity” about genocide and bullying on campus, Israel was in its eighth week of the most genocidal assault on Palestinians in the history of Arab-Jewish wars predating even the creation of Israel in 1948. None of it was relevant to Stefanik, because when Israel is the subject matter, there are no two sides to the story. There are no interpretations. There is no discussion. None permissible, anyway. There is only dogma. Anything else is heresy.

Where the Humanities and Medicine Meet

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Medicine is as much about the human experience as it is about biology.

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine. Literature has had a large role in helping the author define the kind of physician she strives to be – one who is not only empathetic and a good listener but also a fierce advocate for changing the sociopolitical forces that affect patients’ lives.

How Pundits Help, Hurt and Reflect Democracy

January 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Two pundits – Jonah Goldberg, left, and Paul Begala, second from right – discus politics with journalists Kristen Holmes and Jake Tapper. The Conversation, CC BY-SA

Pundits can play a productive role by focusing on issues rather than identities. They contribute to democratic backsliding when they cultivate dystopian views of politics. The best example is the relentless negativity that characterized commentary on presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016.

The Brendan Depa I Have Come To Know

January 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 59 Comments

Brendan Depa at his plea hearing in October. (© FlaglerLive)

Brendan Depa, the former Matanzas High School special education student who pleaded guilty to the beating of Joan Naydich, his paraprofessional, last February, will be sentenced on Jan. 31. Gene Lopes is a retired special education teacher who has spent the last several months tutoring Depa at the Flagler County jail. Here’s his experience.

An American Invention, the Shopping Mall’s Evolution Is Now Owned By China

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Could it be deader? Volusia Mall in Daytona Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Many Chinese malls are being re-imagined by owners and users as palaces of experience – civic areas for communities to meet and interact, with new configurations of public and private space. These experiments could become models for new, creative uses of retail space in the U.S., where the mall was invented.

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