Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican incumbent Gerald Ford in 1976.
The introspective former peanut farmer pledged a new era of honesty and forthrightness at home and abroad, a promise that resonated with voters eager for change...
Donald Trump pulled some pretty unseemly stunts to win the 2016 United States presidential election.
He threatened to put his opponent, Hillary Clinton, in jail and publicly asked Russia to hack her emails. After Russian operatives did something similar – stealing emails from Democratic National Committee servers – the Trump campaign...
Read more: Trump's dirty tricks: Unethical, even illegal campaign tactics are an American tradition
Aka Manai explains that there are two kinds of people in the world: simata and sikerei.
I am a simata. He is a sikerei. Sikerei have undergone transformative experiences...
The April 30 shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte follows a familiar pattern of mass shootings at college campuses in the United States.
If authorities better understood these...
The U.S. hit a terrible and entirely preventable milestone this week: Measles cases are at a 25-year high.
This alarming statistic is not due to changes in public health policy or medical practice, but the rise of the anti-vax...
Air pollution kills. In the United States, 1 of every 25 deaths occurs prematurely because of exposure to outdoor air pollution.
It kills more Americans than all transportation accidents and gun shootings co...
Imagine you have US$2 trillion to spend on patching up America’s crumbling roads, levees and other infrastructure. What would you fix first?
The nation’s needs are great. The American Society of Civilian Engineers’ latest report, from 2017, highlighted derailing trains, roads full of potholes, levees breaching, bridges...
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Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, and scientists argue that the planet’s interior also contains a lot of water. But where did all this water come from?
I and my postdoc Zili...
A British court on Wednesday sentenced Julian Assange to almost a year in prison for jumping bail.
That’s not the end of Assange’s legal problems: On May 2, Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks, will appear at a London court in relation to his requested extradition to the U.S.
The American government has many reasons to dislike Assange,...
Read more: Is the Assange indictment a threat to the First Amendment?
Volunteering with animal rescue and shelter organizations in Detroit brought me face to face with many manifestations of animal cruelty: dogs left outside and frozen in their yards; dogs with chain link collars embedded in their necks; cats that had gaping wounds full of...
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