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The race is on to find those viruses in our viromes that have already figured out how to protect us from the bad guys, while leaving the good bacteria intact.

Tuberculosis, a largely poor peoples’ disease, has killed more people than smallpox, malaria, the plague, influenza, HIV and AIDS and Ebola combined. Yet the global response has been ineffective and shows a basic lack of respect for human rights.

Trump's Op Ed in USA Today and a Fact Check.org article on his claims.

53% view the Vermont senator favorably, 38% unfavorably Nearly four in five Democrats have a positive view of Sanders Ocasio-Cortez's ratings are mixed, and half of Americans don't know her

More than 200,000 people have been marching in the German capital Berlin to protest against xenophobia and the increasing influence of the far right.

On the anniversary of Columbus’s landing in the Caribbean, Virginia poet Karenne Wood depicts the tragic result for North America’s indigenous people.

Research data from 160,000 adults in 31 countries concludes that a sizeable home library gave teen school leavers skills equivalent to university graduates who didn’t read

The Abrams campaign expected voter suppression, had organizations in place to combat it and, at least mathematically, has a path to victory that assumes thousands of voters might be purged and not find out until Election Day.

"Avoid anything that could be construed as progressive or risk never working in television again."