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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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Malheur occupation is over, but the war for America's public lands rages on

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Editor’s note: University of Oregon geography professor Peter Walker has just returned from Harney County, Oregon, where armed occupiers took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. He spent several weeks attending community meetings and watching the events unfold, which he describes here.

On January 2, 2016, some 300 local citizens and...

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Extreme numbers: the unimaginably large and small pop up in recent experiments

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imageIt's a lot of grains of sand, but numbers can get a whole lot bigger....Tony Hisgett, CC BY

The physics world erupted in celebration this month with the confirmed discovery of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) group. Predicted by Einstein a century ago, the discovery verifies his description of...

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With bodies piling up, the war on Mexican journalists has no end in sight

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During Pope Francis' recent tour of Mexico, he denounced the country’s illicit drug trade, while calling for social programs to lift up the poor.

One thing he didn’t explicitly touch on: the precarious situation Mexican journalists find themselves in. In fact, on February 9 – four days before the pope’s arrival – the...

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