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March 27, 2018 in 4,782 words
Why People Don’t Take Lifesaving Medications People are remarkably bad at getting on and sticking with drug regimens—even when those drugs stop AIDS Pictured above; Graves, many of which belong to...
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March 29, 2018 in 3,505 words
If Trump Fires Mueller, He Just Might Get Away With It The country has become increasingly polarized on Russiagate—and Republicans have more to fear from their Trump-supporting base than from...
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March 30, 2018 in 4,121 words
Anti-democracy Oil and gas industry complicity in Colorado’s Cambridge Analytica scandal should raise grave concerns about ongoing efforts to manipulate voters’ opinions on fracking Cambridge...
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March 31, 2018 in 4,874 words
The Crisis in America’s Cities Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the “long hot summer” of 1967 Three weeks after 43 people were killed in race riots in Detroit—the...
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IS IT ART, OR IS IT VANDALISM? That’s for the courts to decide OBSERVED: Behind the Arby’s Restaurant at 2150 North Main Street here in Longmont. PURPOSE: To remind me the world is, perhaps, flat....
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April 2, 2018 in 4,081 words
Metaphors can change our opinions in ways we don’t even realize ROOKIE MISTAKE What has the ability to influence your opinions, in some cases, even more than your own political party? A metaphor, as...
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April 3, 2018 in 5,238 words
Martin Luther King’s forgotten legacy? His fight for economic justice The King we rarely talk about fought to remake America’s political and economic system from the ground up Pictured above: The...
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April 4, 2018 in 4,427 words
‘Martin Luther King Jr.’s Unfinished Work on Earth Must Truly Be Our Own’ Five days after King was assassinated, his “spiritual mentor” Benjamin Mays delivered a eulogy for his former student Benjamin...
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April 5, 2018 in 4,617 words
The demise of the nation state After decades of globalisation, our political system has become obsolete – and spasms of resurgent nationalism are a sign of its irreversible decline What is happening...
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April 6, 2018 in 3,193 words
‘If our countries were safe, we wouldn’t leave’: the harsh reality of Mexico’s migrant caravan As Donald Trump decries an ‘invasion’ and sends troops to the border, David Agren speaks to Central...
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April 7, 2018 in 4,656 words
PORAMBO How a fearless journalist who wrote a seminal account of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark, New Jersey, wound up on the wrong side of the law 1983 The night Ron Porambo was...
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April 8, 2018 in 5,122 words
Earth’s Wonders Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before Pictured above: Earth’s Wonders Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before. Click images to embiggen. Once a matter of debate, we know today the Earth is not...
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April 9, 2018 in 4,444 words
The Report on Race That Shook America It came out in 1968—yet little has changed since the Kerner Commission denounced “white racism” In July 1967, when President Lyndon B. Johnson formed a commission...
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April 10, 2018 in 3,784 words
The Moscow Midterms How Russia could steal our next election The first Americans to line up to vote on Nov. 6, 2018, will be the East Coast’s earliest risers. As early as 5 a.m. EST, rubbing the sleep...
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April 11, 2018 in 3,899 words
The improbable story of the cranberry’s path to global domination THE ART OF INNOVATION Pictured above: Cranberries are an unlikely pawn in the US-China trade war. The secret of the cranberry’s...
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April 12, 2018 in 5,136 words
Photos: Looking back at the evolution of human spaceflight GIANT LEAPS Pictured aboe: Mae Jamison aboard the space shuttle Endeavor in 1992. April 12th is the International Day of Human Spaceflight, a...
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April 13, 2018 in 4,716 words
Don’t buy Zuckerberg’s line that AI will save Facebook WHAT WON’T SAVE US As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced America’s top politicians this week, they struck again and again at the question of...
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April 14, 2018 in 3,549 words
TV DEMONIZES THE WORKING CLASS. TWO NEW SHOWS FINALLY CELEBRATE THEM BREAKTHROUGH Pictured above: A screenshot from On My Block. In 1936, George Orwell gave up his part-time job as a bookshop...
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April 15, 2018 in 4,620 words
Gun control 20 good, bad and ugly ideas to reduce gun violence and save lives Here’s the good news: America, overall, is a much less violent place than it used to be. Our reported violent-crime rate...
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April 16, 2018 in 4,146 words
Unfit to Command With the president in an agitated state, preoccupied with his legal troubles, this is no time for war. The weekend news from Washington featured two story lines: the U.S.-led...
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