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While you feel miserable when you have an influenza infection, you can rest assured that it is because your body is fighting hard. It’s combating the spread of the virus in your lungs and killing infected cells.

It’s no surprise automatic voter registration receives such broad support in a polarized political environment. It's the epitome of good government reform: it’s cost-effective, and it works.

It looks as if a 21st century version of the Cold War (with dangerous new twists) has begun and hardly anyone has noticed. Even while the disastrous U.S. wars against terror still rage, the Pentagon has committed itself and the nation to a new three-front “long war” against China and Russia.

“We got to do something now, the company are not going to do anything and we got to protect ourselves”, proclaimed a shop steward at Lucas Aerospace when filmed by a 1978 documentary by the Open University.

How can we solve the housing crisis? Simple: have the government build more housing.

In a job with tons of power and practically no oversight from voters, law enforcement or politicians, corruption can be easy to get away with.

Championed by the Communist Party’s youth wing, the Komsomol, official discos transformed drab party auditoriums into festivals of transgression.

Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.

The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem urges soldiers to refuse to shoot protestors in Gaza

Oklahoma was once a center of left-populism. Could it be that again?