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I have a proposal. Like my earlier ones to the U.S. Department of Education and members of the appropriate congressional committees, it will almost certainly be ignored. But when …

Donald Trump is getting traction. He is talking about trade, jobs, China, manufacturing, China, jobs, China and China — and it is resonating with a public sick of being …

“The vastly ambitious CMRR project has greatly detracted from the attention needed to solve existing nuclear safety problems at LANL,” writes Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos …

(Photo: Thomas Hawk / Flickr) If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who …

The Antikythera Mechanism at the Boston Museum of Science. (Photo: davelin66) Just before Easter 1900, Greek sponge-fishers were on their way to the waters of Tunisia when …

"We're able to maintain the illusion that we're fighting a war on drugs and that we're protecting young people we're doing it on the backs of poor people. Poor …

New York - As immigrant advocates battle hardline immigration bills in state capitols across the country, they’re receiving crucial support from caucuses of black legislators.

Lieven De Cauter presents a letter from his colleague in Iraq, Asma Al Haidari: April 15th. What am I to write to you about today? It is …

Members of the Costa Rican Coast Guard prepare to board a fishing boat to inspect it for cocaine near Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 4, 2011. (Photo: Tomas Munita …

A U.S. soldier looks over the Baiji Refinery in Baiji, Iraq, Dec. 16, 2009. (Photo: Ayman Oghanna / The New York Times) Afghanistan may be the …