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The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed - from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th and 16th ...

Just a month ago, Baltimore's architectural design panel criticized the planned Wal-Mart store on 25th Street as bleak. Today the project found favor with the panel through ample additions of ...

Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova has disappeared after being moved from a prison in Mordovia 10 days ago, her family said on Friday. Tolokonnikova's father and husband said they last ...

A recent viral video of British comedian Russell Brand taking on a smug and dismissive BBC Newsnight interviewer by the name of Jeremy Paxman, and ending with Brand making a fervent case for social

We Need to be More Careful About Low-Probability/High-Risk Events There are some very serious risks to life on Earth that most environmentalists don't talk about nearly enough, in my opinion, and I

A potentially catastrophic asteroid has been discovered by astronomers, who say there's a slim chance that the 410-meter-wide minor planet will crash into Earth in 2032, creating a blast 50 times ...

Ever the rebel, UK artist M.I.A. got some radical help in opening her performance at New York City's Terminal 5, employing wanted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a guest speaker. Assange ...

Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data - and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. In December 2012, a pink-haired complex ...

How would the Founding Fathers feel about corporations? Read the history, and some of their own quotes, and you'll see that they would have opposed massive corporations and corporate influence in ...

Researchers are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving