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Al Franken, US senator and world reknowned expert on right-wing megalomaniacs, explains Donald Trump.

Big leaps in our understanding of protein folding can open doors to new protein-based medicines and materials--designed from the ground up.

Senator Elizabeth Warren sounds off on Donald Trump's acceptance speech, taking him down in trademark style, with substance, passion and wit.

Roy Zimmerman, perhaps America's premiere political satirical songwriter, nails the meaning of the Republican's Trump convention.

A full year of life on Earth condensed into three minutes, recorded from a satellite orbit at Lagrange point 1, approximately 1 million miles from Earth, where it is balanced between the gravity of our home planet and the sun.

Bob Marley wrote Get Up, Stand Up in 1973 while touring Haiti. It has become a grassroots world anthem of the fightback movement and sound best performed before a big, live audience.

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Bernie Sanders' late endorsement of Hillary Clinton.

An impromptu piano improvisation on Fur Elise at the Prague airport in 2014 by the extraordinary Lebanese musician (and technology consultant) Maan Hamadeh.

Palestinians are in for "another difficult four years" as a result of the weakness of the Democratic Party platform's statement on Israel and Palestine, says Jim Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute.