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Next month's election is important. But the core supporters of Donald Trump are not going to move to Canada -- or Russia -- if their candidate loses. Those who crave the simplistic, authoritarian solutions offered by dangerous populists around the world are not going to retreat into political apathy simply because of the scorn heaped upon them by the mainstream.

Everywhere in the country where there are problems, there are people working to find solutions.

Environmental groups had hoped the deal could reduce global warming by a half a degree celsius by the end of this century. This agreement gets about 90% of the way there, said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development. Zaelke’s group said this would mean the “largest temperature reduction ever achieved by a single agreement”.

Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.

The jokes in the HBO comedy may not be all that funny, but the show reveals something raw and authentic about public-school dynamics.

On Oct. 13, the U.S. carried out its first direct military action against Houthi targets in Yemen, in alleged retaliation for two failed missile attacks on a U.S. ship. The Obama Administration thus underscored its position as a co-belligerent in the Saudi-led war, even as calls mount for an international investigation into Saudi war crimes following the Oct. 8th bombing of a funeral that killed 140 people and wounded hundreds of others, the deadliest attack of the war.

His calls for racial voter intimidation on Election Day could explode in all our faces.

After striking for a day April 1 and coming to the brink of a long strike this fall, Chicago teachers are mulling a tentative agreement that won something unprecedented. They pressured the mayor into pulling money out of Chicago's treasure chest of diverted property taxes, the Tax Increment Finance program.

As white nationalist and Islamophobic rhetoric gains prominence in election, threats of anti-Muslim violence rise sharply.

Celebrating the Beginning of the "End Times"? "Global warming presents a clear and present danger to civilization." -- Lonnie G. Thompson, expert on glacial melt, 2010.