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The Demographic Evolution of the American Electorate, 1974–2060

Alan Turing’s family demands the UK pardon its convicted homosexuals

New ISIS video shows militants smashing ancient Iraq artifacts

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Why Hollywood’s Diversity Problem Can’t Just Be Solved with Fancy Award Ceremonies and Gold Statues by Cara Caddoo For most of its history, Hollywood has worked hard to identify—and undermine—the work of black actors and filmmakers.

Compromising Engineers and the Keystone XL Pipeline by Jonathan Coopersmith Compromise may be a career-ending concept in politics, but it is essential in engineering.

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What The Invention Of Clocks Did To Change Humanity Adam Westbrook delves into the story of the clock, and discovers that when we learned to mechanize time, we accidentally mechanized something else.

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Did the Torture Report Give the C.I.A. a Bum Rap? by David Cole Asking whether torture works is like asking whether slavery works. It’s the wrong question.

Can teaching patriotism protect France? by Robert Zaretsky After the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a country recommits to promoting national values in schools—a tradition that has flagged in the United States

Jeb Bush on Foreign Policy: Peddling old Iraq Myths Again by Juan Cole Jeb Bush’s maiden voyage into foreign policy was painful to watch, a hodgepodge of exaggerated bogeymen, vague ideals, inaccurate assertions, and bad history.

Remembering Malcolm X Fifty Years Later by Daniel Pipes Malcolm X was anything but mainstream and the passage of a half century should not soften attitudes toward him.

The harrowing story of Masako Shinjo Summers Robbins by Masako Shinjo Summers Robinson How a child born in Osaka, sold by her father into slavery, ended up in America

One Standard, Not Two, for Christianity and Islam by Jeffrey Herf The President spoke the truth recently when he said “terrible deeds” have been committed in the name of Christianity. We should be equally frank in saying that terrible deeds are now being committed in the name of Islam.

Sticks, Stones, and American Exceptionalism by R. B. Bernstein How are we to take polemicists’ rhetoric seriously, when it celebrates a past and a nation that never was?

The Warmongering Record of Hillary Clinton by Gary Leupp Clinton’s record of her tenure in the State Department is entitled Hard Choices, but it has never been hard for Hillary to choose brute force in the service of U.S. imperialism and its controlling 1%.

“He got intimidated by the right”: Orlando Patterson on President Obama, race & black culture by Ian Blair 50 years after the Moynihan report, renowned Harvard sociologist talks Ferguson, respectability politics and Cosby

Fidel Castro and Apartheid by Matt Peppe Cuba’s intervention in Angola managed to change the course of that country and reverberate throughout Africa.

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New ISIS video shows militants smashing ancient Iraq artifacts The five-minute video shows a group of bearded men inside the Mosul Museum using hammers and drills to destroy several large statues, which are then shown chipped and in pieces.

How air conditioning helped Ronald Reagan become president Everyday objects and ideas have, through history, often had fascinating and unexpected consequences, as a new BBC Two series reveals.

Alan Turing’s family demands the UK pardon its convicted homosexuals The famed mathematician and codebreaker received a royal pardon in 2013. As many as 49,000 others have not

A Turkish Flag Draws Parallels to Iconic Iwo Jima Photo Photographer Firat Yurdakul captured a scene reminiscent of Joe Rosenthal's WWII image

The Demographic Evolution of the American Electorate, 1974–2060 The demographics of the United States are projected to become much more diverse in the coming decades and will have significant effects on the nation's voting electorate in all 50 states.

New Study: Plague outbreaks that ravaged Europe for centuries were driven by climate changes in Asia These outbreaks were traditionally thought to be caused by rodent reservoirs of infected rats lurking in Europe’s cities, or potentially by rodent reservoirs in the wilderness. But research published in the journal PNAS suggests otherwise.

Scan Reveals Mummy Hidden Inside Buddha Statue The mummy is believed to be that of Liuquan, a Buddhist monk who died in China around 1,100 A.D.

Blacks weren’t the only victims of violence by white mobs. So were Mexicans.

Herman Rosenblat, 85, Dies; Made Up Holocaust Love Story What led him to embellish the story is anybody’s guess.

The first American to die on the battlefield in World War I died before the US entered the conflict Missing from chapters on World War One are the stories of Americans who volunteered for the fight before the US entered the war.