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Meanwhile ... we have the specter this weekend of games that could be a train-wreck waiting to happen.

The new Cold War is upon us, and the American elites have no suggestions except to fight it again.

Millennials - are ‘digital natives’ - the only generation for which - the Internet, mobile technology and social media - are not something they’ve had to adapt to.

Russia, Ukraine, Paul Ryan, International Women's Day

The question before the Mayor is whether he will continue to fund a dual school system–one sector able to choose the students it wants–and the other sector serving all. He is trying to have it both ways, and it doesn’t work. He gave the charter lobby almost everything it wanted, and they still came after him as if he had given them nothing at all.

A radical new gene therapy for HIV using genetically modified cells mimics a rare but natural mutation that makes about 1% of the population resistant to the most common strains of HIV. Scientists were cautious not to draw strong conclusions from the small scale trial, which was designed to assess the safety of the therapy, but the early signs have raised their hopes.

We could dramatically reduce the financial sector or cut its profits, salaries and bonuses without harming the economy.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the richest 1 percent took home 9 to 10 percent of total income. Today the top 1 percent gets more than 20 percent.

Creation Science 101. Documentary: Kids for Cash. The Story of American Folk Music. Aida Flash Mob.

With new strategies, the Working Families Party is shaking up the two-party system.Bertha Lewis knows perhaps better than anyone else how hard those fights can be. But she thinks they're worth it. "Sometimes, in years past, you couldn't tell a Democrat from a Republican. No one wanted to talk about race; no one wanted to talk poverty. This conversation that we're having nationally about inequality is because [groups like WFP] kept to our principles and our ideas...' "