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U.S. politics, often decried for its "partisanship", is all too bipartisan in its deeply dysfunctional consensus on tax and wealth, says Columbia economics professor Jeffrey Sachs.
We don’t look at Nature only from the light of reason. To look for explanations behind natural phenomena is, as Einstein remarked, akin to an act of devotion.
Newly published research suggests keeping a potential romantic partner guessing can pique his or her interest—mystery can be a powerful motivator of attraction.
"When we learn to tolerate boredom, we find out who we really are," said one speaker at a recent conference on boredom who lamented our over-stimulated culture.
Our ultra-costly and ultra-punitive system is neither protecting victims nor rehabilitating lawbreakers. It's time for a new and less costly approach, says Sunil Dutta.
The financial crisis has created an environment where, because of government-funded bailouts, big banks are getting bigger, as the small ones struggle.
Nearly two centuries after Tocqueville, both fear and hope still brood over the puzzle of America’s innermost nature, and America’s influence on the wider world.
The standard cosmological model holds that most of the matter in the universe remains missing in action; now a small but vocal group of cosmologists is challenging that model.
Richard Dawkins on his lifelong love of the King James Bible, which will be 400 years old next year: "Everyday speech is laced with biblical phrases from quotation to cliché."
Nichi Vendola is one of the country’s most popular politicians, social-networking confident, adored by the young and might lead a leftish coalition in the next general election.
Close to 90 percent of U.S. households still subscribe to pay TV in one form or another but 2011 may be the year of "cord cutting" and the end of cable television.
Once a company has 500 shareholders, it must register its private shares with the S.E.C. and publicly disclose its financial results. Is Facebook approaching the limit?
Multiculturalist thinkers frequently dismiss liberal moral principles such as freedom and tolerance as illusions, or as not being good enough, says Frank Furedi.
Can the leak phenonomen WikiLeaks sustain the continued assault by the corporate sector to prevail in the first ever cyber-war? Mark LeVine says capital will likely win out.
Google will use satellites to scour Sudan for evidence of state-organised violence before next month's referendum that could see the country split in two.
The America Competes Act, passed by Congress shortly before Christmas, calls for $46 billion in science and technology research funding over the next three years.
Genetically modified plants could sequester more carbon and make better biofuels, possibly offsetting five billion tons by 2050. So what's standing in their way?
A British study shows conservatives' brains tend to have larger amygdalas, which are responsible for more primitive emotions such as fear.
Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, and his prime minister, Vladimir Putin, apparently cannot agree on which of them will be running for the Russian presidency in March 2012.
The now-prevalent pattern of flag-rank military officers going to work for defense contractors as soon as they retire is a form of corruption, says James Fallows at The Atlantic.