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Palestinians slam new 'breach of loyalty' legislation as 'extremely racist' and a violation of international law.

To the U.S., steps toward denuclearization have been the starting and ending point for negotiations with North Korea. But for the North Koreans, it has always been about trying to secure a guarantee to merely exist.

Slavery did not die because it was unproductive or unprofitable, as some earlier historians have argued. Slavery was not some feudal remnant on the way to extinction.

Bill's lifelong lesson for us: Let us never forget. The Panthers were an inspiration for the country’s School Breakfast Program and they fought for sickle cell screening.

Doctors in Quebec say negotiated pay rises are ‘shocking’ given ‘draconian cuts’ to other parts of province’s healthcare system

The destruction of habeas corpus—the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment by a state court—may be the most tragic development of the modern legal era.

New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group.

Charles Schumer, leader of the Senate Democrats, is worried younger Americans, including young American Jews, are becoming more critical of Israel. But it is not because they are ignorant of history. It’s because they are less enthralled to myth.

Paul Goldberg on How to Stay Sane in a World Besieged by Idiocy

The project is Beijing’s big experiment in outsourcing, and a $10 billion shot in the arm for the African nation—if there isn’t a civil war first.