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Slavery did not die because it was unproductive or unprofitable, as some earlier historians have argued. Slavery was not some feudal remnant on the way to extinction.

Bill's lifelong lesson for us: Let us never forget. The Panthers were an inspiration for the country’s School Breakfast Program and they fought for sickle cell screening.

Doctors in Quebec say negotiated pay rises are ‘shocking’ given ‘draconian cuts’ to other parts of province’s healthcare system

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."