The headquarters of The Boston Globe. Brian Snyder/ReutersNote: this article may contain spoilers for those unfamiliar with the story.
In the new movie Spotlight, there’s a wonderful scene where a reporter is seeking documents in a courthouse. The building is a dreary linoleum monument to The Way Things Are. In the scene, a recalcitrant clerk...
There's nothing a couple beers can't fix. ReutersToday’s strong employment report is a cause for celebration, at least for now.
The economy reversed the trend of the past three months by creating 271,000 new jobs. The overall unemployment rate is now at 5%, a seven-year low. Growth was especially strong in the service sector, with...
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Millions March TexasElizabeth Brossa/flickr, CC BY-NC-SAComparing the 1960s and 1970s Black Panther Party and today’s Black Lives Matter movement reveals parallels and progress.
Stanley Nelson’s recently released film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution juxtaposes the party’s justice movement against the Black Lives...
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UAW workers are fighting back.ReutersWhen members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) approved a new contract with Fiat Chrysler on October 22, they ended a contentious round of negotiations that exposed rank-and-file discontent over a two-tier wage system that one worker described as “at odds with union principles.”
In a rare move just a...
You might not know the extent to which news sites are exposing your information to third-party servers.'News' via www.shutterstock.comYou may already know that every time you go online, your browsing history could be exposed to numerous advertisers and data brokers who then send you “targeted” advertisements.
But what about visiting the...
Unmanned rocket explodes moments after launch.NASA/Joel Kowsky, CC BY-NC-NDHuman beings will always be explorers. We’ve pretty well surveyed our planet, our tiny blue dot, for answers and only found more questions. Why are we here? How did we get here? What does it mean?
What happens when vast numbers of us can leave our tiny blue dot behind?N...
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The warming global climate is causing fundamental changes to the carbon cycle in northern parts of the world. peupleloup/flickr, CC BY-SAStudies show that the warming of the climate system is altering the movement and storage of carbon in the far north of the Earth. And these changes carry global implications. Among the many questions that...
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The Parana River in moonlight. Gisela Giardino, CC BY-SAI am a scholar and teacher of Spanish and Portuguese. I am also a poet.
The several books of poetry I have published in English, Spanish and Guarani (an indigenous South American language and one of the official languages of Paraguay), plus numerous readings of my work, both in Paraguay and at...
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen looking into an X-ray screen placed in front of a man's body and seeing the ribs and the bones of the arm.Wellcome Library, London, CC BYSunday, November 8 marks the 120th anniversary of one of the greatest moments in the history of science: an obscure German physics professor’s discovery of the X-ray. His name was...
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Carson smiles at the CNBC GOP debate. Rick Wilking/REUTERSBen Carson has now overtaken Donald Trump in the national polls as the GOP front-runner.
As a black man, I’m not at all sure how I should feel about this.
On the one hand, he represents a party that has dedicated itself to opposing President Obama at every turn, mostly because the pres...