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20 even Alawite predominance, would never survive a system shaped by free elections, the rule of law, and the existence of independent media. The New York Times interviews were made possible by the deep uneasiness in the Obama administration with moves that might destabilize th...

100 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? X-rays The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Rontgen in 1901. He had discovered ‘X’ rays; so called because he had no better name for them. X-rays, as they became known, are just light of a very high frequency. Light comes i...

…g studies show that different circuits turn on when we lie about long held personal stories as opposed to lies about in-the-moment situations. When we distort reality, either omitting information or twisting it to create a false belief, we have to inhibit the way things are to cr...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 One day while he was hearing arguments, and I was working in the office, I received a note from the Justice asking me whether it was required under Jewish law that an orthodox woman always wears a hat, even while arguing a case in the Supreme Court. The Supreme...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians give the authorities wide discretion in applying them to regime opponents. Such measures are typically paired with a court system that uses law merely to justify political instructions from the ex-...

What might seem like an ordinary picture at first, shows a fire breaking out aboard the ship called SS Grandcamp. The people on the dock are members of the Texas City Volunteer Fire Department, attempting to extinguish the fire. Just moments after the picture was taken, the ship...

In our own age, a fundamental conflict lingers as well. This is the struggle between individual liberty and connection. We have to ask a version of Hayek’s question: Are we happier, better off, more justly fulfilled through ceaseless linkage to the fast systems all around us? The...

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and they will accept any results of the elections and deal with any government that respects human rights and the rights of women and minorities and the democratic process

though there have been significant disagreements with both Russia and his GOP opponents over the contours of missile defense. Human rights advocates have criticized the president for ignoring the erosion of Russian democracy. Russia has also continued to stymie U.S. efforts to im...

one can buy a DVD entitled “9/12: From Chaos to Community.” Ground Zero is the architectural and human proof that

the methods detailed Wednesday in the journal Cell would allow researchers to fashion human embryonic stem cells that are custom-made for patients with Alzheimer's disease

THEN I HAVE WASTED 40 YEARS OF MY LIFE ON THESE TOPICS.

including freedom from interpersonal violence – was a high priority throughout my years of servant-leadership. The idea that Pat Neff Hall was oblivious to student-safety concerns was belied not only by common sense and basic human decency

Murder At the Conspiracy Convention ‘The history of civilization is the history of wartare between secret societies.” --/shmael Reed In the men’ s room at the airport, a man standing at the urinal a couple of urinals away from my urinal was urinating without aiming his penis. B...