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Historian Tim McCarthy sees pros and cons to using the riots as a point of origin for the gay rights movement.

The community is thrilled by recent progress, but frustration still lingers, says Tim McCarthy, founding member of Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council.

Here lies a gentleman, he was a reformer, pioneer, the most important the fixer. Regrets he had a lot, glory a few, sin at least one. May you rest on August 25, 2009. God bless you Mr. Edward Kennedy.

Greenhouses are a mini example of the phenomena called 'the greenhouse effect.' Unfortunately in the years following the Industrial Revolution gases causing air pollution have gotten trapped in earth's atmosphere and they are Heating Things Up.

During our interview with him, Big Think asked Ted Kennedy to give his counsel: the primary lesson he had learned, the key insight one should take away from his historic […]

The numbers that came out yesterday were downright alarming: up to 90,000 people could die from the swine flu this fall, and 1.8 million people could be hospitalized. So says […]

It was big news when Alec Ross joined the White House State Department in early April 2009—the former Obama campaign social media star was the first diplomatic expert with a […]

By all appearances, it was intended to endear art to a Western populace not necessarily familiar with Manet and Renoir. So when the Whitney Gallery of Western Art opened in […]

Ted Kennedy was a model American politician: he rose from a famous family, had significant personal wealth and connections, endured scandals, and was a shrewd political operator. But what set […]

Noam Chomsky recounts how his anti-Vietnam War activities nearly jeopardized his family.

The MIT linguistics professor on life without his wife.

saving environment is paramount to saving ourselves

Noam Chomsky contemplates the basic, yet still unanswerable, questions of linguistics.

While The Ford Motor Company made news this afternoon with its first quarterly profits in more than four years, Noam Chomsky explains why vague references to ‘cost-cutting’ and a dependence […]

Noam Chomsky laments the wide gulf between public policy and public attitudes towards the cost of drugs.

In a functioning democracy, Noam Chomsky claims, people would celebrate on tax day—why then do most Americans view every April 15th as a day of mourning?

Noam Chomsky discusses the limits of civic participation in the U.S., and the extensive efforts that political and business elites have made to keep it that way.

Noam Chomsky explains why “that feeling of helplessness” and “impotence” is the natural response to American democracy.

Obama hasn’t disappointed Chomsky yet–but the linguist didn’t expect much from him anyway.

The Human Genome Project can help us answer humanity's biggest questions surrounding war and violence.