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Hillary Clinton seems to be preparing to run for president, and the former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina may yet enter the race on the Republican side. Whoever wins the White House in 2016, today it seems easily possible that within the next decade, the U.S. will follow Britain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, India, Israel, Thailand, Norway and dozens of…
A new study reports that white Christians, long understood to be the primary shapers of American politics and culture, are rapidly losing their majority status across the country — even in traditionally conservative states. Earlier this week, Jonathan Merritt of the Religion News Service dug into data from the American Values Atlas, a website unveiled late…
The New York Times reported last week that 10 states are currently considering measures to allow people to carry firearms on college campuses. In Nevada, the Republican assemblywoman who sponsored the bill has argued that arming students amounts to a kind of rape prevention. “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I…
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed to disrupt Nigeria’s general election in a new video released Tuesday, after two suicide attacks in the northeast blamed on the Islamists killed 38 people. Video provided by AFP Newslook Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau makes a statement at an undisclosed location in this screengrab taken from video on…
The report Monday that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state raises a number of important questions about government transparency and access to public records. Unsurprisingly, however, the conversation quickly veered from matters of policy into ominous speculation about the political consequences for Mrs. Clinton, the…
TV’s “Science Guy” Bill Nye speaks during a debate on evolution with Creation Museum head Ken Ham. (AP/Dylan Lovan) He’s not making his popular children’s science show anymore, but Bill Nye the Science Guy is still making a public impact by going after pseudoscience and science denial. He’s railed against the idea of teaching creationism…
Guardian‘s Ana Marie Cox continued her rebirth this morning with an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” She’s been receiving a heap of attention from a recent Daily Beast column in which she comes out as a Christian. A number of Washingtonians and MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts are noticing a major change in her as of late. As some may recall, in 2011…
Wednesday’s news from the Justice Department that the Ferguson police are racially biased would not surprise any of the protestors who have kept the faith in this struggling suburb. /.shifty-wrapper It is their daily lives that were coldly recounted in a Justice Department report, six months in the making, that studied 35,000 pages of police…
Wilson’s supporters accused Eric Holder of burying news on the same day his officials accused Ferguson police of a pattern of racial bias. Photograph: Handout/Getty Images Darren Wilson, the white police officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, led to months of unrest and revived a debate on race and…
Photo David H. Petraeus, left, in Denver in September. A plea deal would spare Mr. Petraeus a high-profile trial where embarrassing details about his affair would have been presented to the jury and made public. Credit Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post, via Associated Press WASHINGTON — David H. Petraeus, the best-known military commander of his generation, has…