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The Keystone XL pipeline debate is over, but our infrastructure needs are not

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imageObama announcing that he has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline – what message does it send on infrastructure? Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline was virtually a foregone conclusion well before he announced it.

Just as the prolonged debate about the pipeline was far more a matter of...

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Jobs report shows why it's time Speaker Ryan and President Obama sat down for a beer

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imageThere's nothing a couple beers can't fix. Reuters

Today’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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Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter -- parallels and progress

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imageMillions March TexasElizabeth Brossa/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Comparing 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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Labor's rank and file still believe in collective bargaining's power to bolster middle class

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imageUAW workers are fighting back.Reuters

When 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...

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Think you're reading the news for free? New research shows you're likely paying with your privacy

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imageYou might not know the extent to which news sites are exposing your information to third-party servers.'News' via www.shutterstock.com

You 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...

Read more: Think you're reading the news for free? New research shows you're likely paying with your privacy

It's not rocket science: we need a better way to get to space

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imageUnmanned rocket explodes moments after launch.NASA/Joel Kowsky, CC BY-NC-ND

Human 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?

imageWhat happens when vast numbers of us can leave our tiny blue dot behind?N...

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Will the Arctic shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source?

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imageThe warming global climate is causing fundamental changes to the carbon cycle in northern parts of the world. peupleloup/flickr, CC BY-SA

Studies 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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'Powerpoint was not his thing': a poem on teaching and technology

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imageThe Parana River in moonlight. Gisela Giardino, CC BY-SA

I 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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On the 120th anniversary of the X-ray, a look at how it changed our view of the world

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imageWilhelm 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 BY

Sunday, 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...

Read more: On the 120th anniversary of the X-ray, a look at how it changed our view of the world

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