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To meet the Paris climate goals, do we need to engineer the climate?

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imageWill the world resort to 'solar radiation management' to slow the Earth's heating? Mark Robinson/flickr, CC BY-NC

The climate talks that convened in Paris at the end of 2015 produced a historic agreement, giving negotiators and climate activists good reason to celebrate. Now the task is to ensure that the ambition shown in Paris is matched by...

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A closer look at Rubio, Cruz and the Latino vote in Nevada

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Nevada is a key swing state. Latinos comprise 17 percent of its eligible voters.

Since Nevada is one of the few battleground states with a high percentage of Latino voters, the results of Tuesday’s Republican caucus will give us the first good indication of the appeal of the GOP field to this important and growing demographic.

As a political...

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Why do we pretend Supreme Court justices are anything but political officials?

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imageFlags fly at half mast at the Supreme Court days after Justice Antonin Scalia's death.taedc/flickr, CC BY-SA

The late Justice Antonin Scalia believed that the federal Constitution allows states to ban abortion, to prohibit consensual sex between two adults in the privacy of their home as well as same-sex marriage, to keep a prestigious state-funded...

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Why big tech companies are open-sourcing their AI systems

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imageOpening the artificial mind to public review and improvement.Open brain via www.shutterstock.com

The world’s biggest technology companies are handing over the keys to their success, making their artificial intelligence systems open-source.

Traditionally, computer users could see the end product of what a piece of software did by, for instance,...

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U.S. mayors desperate to fix crumbling infrastructure but states, feds hold them back

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imageMayor R.T. Rybak surveys the 2007 Interstate 35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota.u.s. Coast Guard/Wikimedia

The drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan illustrates two urgent and related challenges that are stressing many American cities. First, critical infrastructure systems such as roads, bridges and water networks are aging and...

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Trump's South Carolina victory could make him unstoppable in GOP race

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The Republican establishment’s nightmare scenario got one step closer to fruition in South Carolina on Saturday night.

Donald Trump won the South Carolina GOP primary in decisive fashion, carrying one-third of the vote in one of the most conservative states in the country. Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz lagged far...

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Four reasons why Clinton's Nevada victory is important

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A liberal tidal wave is building within the Democratic Party, but Bernie Sanders is no longer the only candidate riding it.

Hillary Clinton’s crucial victory in the Nevada Caucuses on Saturday showed that Sanders does not have a monopoly on liberal voters. Clinton held her own with liberals while winning big among moderates. In the process,...

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The GOP moves to South Carolina, the first red state battleground

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Saturday’s Republican primary in South Carolina looks likely to boost the state’s reputation as a hard-fought political battleground.

The best description of Palmetto State politics came from James L. Petigru, a politician who in 1860 declared that “South Carolina is too small to be a republic, and too large to be an insane...

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