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The open-source platform has added nearly half a million users in little more than a week — but should scientists make the leap? We examine the pros and cons.

The national director of Jewish civil rights organization the Anti-Defamation League has tweeted out concerns over comedian Dave Chappelle’s opening monologue last night on Saturday Night Lilve (sic).

Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?

Unfounded Fed tightening myths are backfiring on the economy.

If you can’t rein in the police, you can’t save democracy

The Supreme Court hearings on affirmative action revealed just how weak the right-wing position is—but the GOP justices will overturn the policy anyway.

A provocative history of Indigenous America. How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?

Workers at the only ‘big four’ publisher to have a union authorize indefinite strike over low wages and diversity

Voters in Massachusetts just ratified the Fair Share Amendment, which taxes income above $1 million to fund public services. A broad coalition of labor and community groups took on billionaire money and won.

The fundamental question is why the Democrats did not landslide the Republicans nationally. This is the worst GOP in its history.