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The Carters' key to marital bliss? Jimmy and Rosalynn resolved long ago never to go to sleep angry at one another.
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Over the next 50 years, China will become a global superpower, but unlike the U.S., it is very careful to avoid the entanglements of war.
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Carter, who brokered one of the most successful Mideast peace agreements during his presidency, offers his thoughts on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
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The President should stop trying to negotiate with the "totally irresponsible" Republicans, letting the American people know where he stands, without equivocation.
The 39th President laments his failure to be reelected—and his failure to keep the Democratic Party unified.
The public has made tremendous strides towards accepting gay people—and is even ready to have one in the White House.
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The former President gave his controversial "malaise speech" in 1979, admonishing the American public for consuming beyond its means. Things are even worse now, he says.
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America has been the most innovative nation of the past century. But decades of consumption beyond its means have robbed the country of its competitive edge, says the former President.
After reading George Lakoff’s diary “Untellable Truths” over at Daily Kos this morning, which methodically described why the progressive wing of the Democratic Party always seems to get the short […]
Since it's birth in 1998, Google has become our gateway to the Web (its supremacy threatened somewhat now by Apple and Facebook). It processes over 1 billion search requests every […]
I have a new book out! It's Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for our Future. Here's a review/blurb: Peter Lawler is today’s […]
For 50 years, the U.S. Geological Survey has been building an archive of old photos of desert landscapes and new photos of them. Check out the fascinating results.
Ted Cascio on why "The Simpsons" has gone downhill and why it should stop glossing over the issue of racism.
Honey traps, also called "honey pots," have been a favorite spying tactic as long as sex and espionage have existed—in other words, forever.
If the world's leading experts in politics, psychology and game theory were to design a problem to be as difficult as possible to solve, it would probably look a lot like climate change.
Spiegel says that it's only if companies are more generous in their interpretation of fundamental rights that the Internet can continue to function as a public space.
Attempts to explain art, music, literature, and the sense of beauty as adaptations is both trivial as science and empty as a form of understanding.
An analysis of how ants quickly find new routes in a changing maze reveals techniques that could be useful to systems engineers.
Shanghai, China, trounced the competition in an international test of 15-year-olds' skills in math, science, and reading. So what makes the Shanghai students special?
Paul Krugman and David Stockman rarely agree but are united in their stance on the "fiscal irresponsibility of the tax-cut deal." Why and so what?