In his book The American Left and Some British Comparisons, published in 1971, the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith sought to analyze the persistent shortcomings of the Democratic Party.
The impatience across much of the media is palpable. Recount? Oh groan. That’s not going to change the election results. The consensus “truth” writhing just below the surface of the mainstream, eyeball-rolling
One less rewarding consequence of that same fact is hearing something like, “Of course you believe in that; you are a libertarian,” in response to some policy conclusion I have drawn.
HIV/Aids directly affects roughly 36.7 million worldwide and kills over 1 million each year. A human trial period for the HIV vaccine, known as HVTN 702, started this November for 5,400 sexually active South African men and women between the ages of 18 and 35.
April 1995 put radicalized right-wing terrorism firmly in the minds of Americans and law enforcement, when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. At the time,
ScienceMatters is a new journal seeking to democratize scientific knowledge by taking away some of the pretense associated with the most prestigious journals. Greater access by more thinkers to more knowledge is a wonderful ingredient to boost scientific discovery.
With 2.5 million individual solar panels across more than 10.36 square kilometers, India's new plant is capable of powering 150,000 homes. The facility puts India on track to be the world's third-biggest solar market by next year, joining several other countries on the path to creating a fossil-fuel free future.
The world's largest quantum physics experiment, run by 12 different labs around the world, will test Albert Einstein's idea of local realism - one of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. The experiment aims to use a huge amount of random, user-generated data to test Bell's inequality.