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The president’s new commission has a lot of fans — in the Federalist Society.

Failing to re-join JCPOA, Biden risks war with Iran or acceding to an Iranian nuclear program on steroids — only delaying and multiplying the political risks to his presidency.

Carbon dioxide levels are now higher than at anytime in the past 3.6 million years.

The Inuit Ataqatigiit party won 37% of the vote, with 29% for the ruling social-democratic Siumut party, according to official results reported by Reuters. At the center of Tuesday's election was the fate of a rare-earth and uranium mining project.

The first results from Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment have just come out, compelling, but not definitive. But it’s not time to give up on the Standard Model just yet.

Larry Pratt, a former Virginia state legislator, suggested that local armed militias should be formed to help in the war on drugs. His models were the civil defense patrols in Guatemala and the Alsa Masa vigilantes in the Philippines

Militant anti-racist activity coincided with the pandemic due to the realization that these expressions of structural racism – disparate vulnerability to death from the virus, disparate vulnerability to death from police violence -- were linked.

The modernisation of China’s exchange-rate system could deal the currency a painful blow.

The union’s loss in Bessemer shows the urgent need for both labor law reform and organizing at a mass scale.

The prize-winning writer shares her thoughts on India, nationalism, literature and politics.