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Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of the study of life’s diversity and relatedness at the molecular level is the movement of genes across species lines - HGT. It turns out that HGT has been widespread and important.

In the spirit of rehabilitation, of teaching incarcerated people that well-planned and properly motivated efforts at change can be rewarded, even if only minimally, administrators need to work with inmates on this one.

Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

It called the alleged network of former Obama aides the Echo Chamber and accused its members of mounting a coördinated effort “to undermine President Trump’s foreign policy” through organized attacks in the press against Trump and his advisers.

Was it coincidence that a mass raid on two Memphis homes occurred on the first day of a trial in which police face claims of illegal surveillance of Black Lives Matter campaigners?

Responding to the smear campaign against its leader Jeremy Corbyn, the British Labor Party appears ready to adopt a definition of anti-Semitism that includes “examples” it earlier rejected that would severely curb the freedom to criticize Israel.

What the president’s supporters fear most isn’t the corruption of American law, but the corruption of America’s traditional identity.

How to argue with a Koch brother

But Republicans Won’t Let Them Have It

In this interview about his latest book, David Graeber discusses the role of unions, the challenges posed by automation and “the revolt of the caring classes.”