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Two degrees above absolute zero was never so hot.

After decades of atrocities, the warlords were finally being held to account. Then the Americans stepped in.

The system indeed is rigged, but that doesn’t make elections impossible to win.

For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San Francisco recently went on strike—and it worked.

FX’s new comedy Better Things, created by and starring Louie’s Pamela Adlon, is an acerbic look at the life of a working actress raising three children.

Clinton said half of Donald Trump’s supporters were prejudiced. If anything, her numbers are too low.

Why “no job loss” is the wrong standard for setting the right wage floor.

A quarter century ago, teaching a Native American History class at Duke, I noted that enrollment spiked after the release of Kevin Costner's blockbuster film about the post-Civil War West, Dances with Wolves. Sometime soon, Fox Searchlight Pictures is rolling out a movie about Nat Turner's 1831 Slave Revolt with the provocative title, Birth of a Nation. Though retired from the classroom, I find myself wondering whether another much-needed teaching moment is on the way.

Duke law professor Curtis Bradley and Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, both Bush administration alumni, warned, "If the United States reduces the immunity it accords to other nations, it exposes itself to an equivalent reduction in its own immunity abroad."

Agreement, hailed as breakthrough, aims to halt fighting and start US-Russian military cooperation in Syria.