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The apparent malfunctioning of a new app, meant to transmit vote totals, threw the Iowa caucus in disarray. And this benefited some more than others

How bad it really gets: Inequality and climate disaster wreck an Illinois town. Trump's divine right, and more.

One of the main questions posed in 'Epicentro' is what happens when the marginalized create their own narratives against the dominant ones. It’s an idea expressed in many of this year’s Sundance documentaries.

The strikes in France continue! In the past few months the electrical workers have taken up the mantle of Robin Hood by cutting power to the rich and reconnecting the poor.

Nine years after his death, residents in the chaos-wracked country's capital have grown to miss the longtime leader as the frustrations of daily life mount.

More prisoners have died at Guantánamo than have been convicted by the military commissions. 2019 was a bad year for justice for former and present Guantánamo prisoners, and not just prisoners subject to the military commission process.

Everything we thought we knew about drone warfare -- and America’s wars more broadly -- is about to be thrown out the window. Under the circumstances, one thing is predictable: ever more civilians are going to die in America’s wars.

A single payer system drives down the cost of health care…single payer is the way to go.” -Gavin Newsom, campaigning for California Governor, 2017 “You can’t jump over a chasm in two steps”. -Dr. Quentin Young

...inspire and bring into unified action the substantial majority of U.S. people who disagree with one another on many things but agree Trump and his enablers are a danger to people and the planet...

We now can identify which genes were important at each stage of domestication history, and discover what they do.