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The destruction of habeas corpus—the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment by a state court—may be the most tragic development of the modern legal era.

New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group.

Charles Schumer, leader of the Senate Democrats, is worried younger Americans, including young American Jews, are becoming more critical of Israel. But it is not because they are ignorant of history. It’s because they are less enthralled to myth.

Paul Goldberg on How to Stay Sane in a World Besieged by Idiocy

The project is Beijing’s big experiment in outsourcing, and a $10 billion shot in the arm for the African nation—if there isn’t a civil war first.

By all accounts, the strike is a bottom-up rebellion. It was organized by rank-and-file teachers, with state teachers’ unions scrambling to catch up.

"The bank lobbyists have been hitting Capitol Hill hard, and they have a Dodd-Frank rollback bill lined up with the support of every Republican and 12 Democrats."

On this day in 1943, a strike in Italy’s FIAT company marked the beginning of the end for Mussolini.

How bad is bad? asks the poet Jennifer Michael Hecht, in this wrenching ballad of worse to worst.