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Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”

“The flu is a much greater threat to the American public than Ebola is,” says a public health expert.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have to grapple with free speech and hate speech—and they haven’t done a good job.

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The southern New Mexico mining town of Santa Rita no longer exists, even as a ghost town, except in the memories of Terry Humble and others who lived there. In September, another vestige of Santa Rita disappeared when workers at the Chino Mine voted 236-83 to decertify a 72-year-old union celebrated for its heroic struggle to improve the lives of Hispanic miners and immortalized by the 1954 movie “Salt of the Earth.”

“Kaiser has attacked its own workers and its core clients at the same time,” Local 5 Secretary-Treasurer Eric Gill says. “Union groups have been its core constituency,” but now they’re facing double-digit rate hikes in Hawaii.

“The Common Core will never become the National Standards with National Tests that its creators wanted. It will go away like the world ends in the TS Eliot poem, the Hollow Men: ‘Not with a bang but a whimper.’”

San Francisco’s famously progressive and largest public employee union is being accused by another union of contracting out jobs.

The election is being avidly watched by the right wing throughout the hemisphere, eager to see signs of ebbing of the "pink tide" that brought progressive governments into several countries of the region in the last decade and a half.

The solution, both to America's voting access problem and to alleviating public concerns about fraud, is to establish an affirmative right to vote.