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Compact genomes and tiny cells gave flowering plants an edge over competing flora. This discovery hints at a broader evolutionary principle.

Many noble old ideas about free speech don’t compute in the age of social media. The notion that a “marketplace of ideas” will elevate the truth is flatly belied by the virality of fake news and the fact that the marketplace is no longer public.

It takes a special type of hypocrite to accuse your opponents of hypocrisy for following in your footsteps

Besides his role in voter suppression efforts, Farr, 63, also worked for a group founded by Southern business owners with the goal of suppressing workers' right to organize.

We need to stop NSA in engaging in mass, warrantless spying.

Among the items considered: military funding far above the White House's request and, enticingly for Trump, full funding for Trump's border security demands. What was Schumer thinking?

The companies’ management of the toll road drew criticism over everything from emergency management to toll increases. In September 2008, for instance, the state ordered a suspension of tolls so residents could evacuate a flood zone, and, as a result, the state had to pay the consortium nearly $450,000 in foregone revenue.

Florida-based poet Lolita Stewart-White addresses the paradox of race hatred that seems never to go away.

We must develop an international movement that takes on the greed and ideology of the billionaire class and leads us to a world of economic, social and environmental justice.

What role does warming – specifically the warming ocean and air temperatures in the Arctic – play in this warm-West/cool-East weather pattern? Here's the explanation.