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Why did Obama administration lawyers refuse to discount the possibility, even for First Amendment–protected speech?

A case of scientific misconduct at Harvard.

The protesters have put their faith in the last seemingly credible force in the world: each other.

Sports radio show how people want to use their intelligence in complex discussions.

Jeff Biggers on student protests in Arizona, John Nichols on Canada's New Democratic Party, and Kate Murphy on FAIR's twenty-fifth anniversary.

Scientists, Sam Harris writes, are the saints of circumspection. If that’s true, then with his writing on religion and morality Harris breaks the mold.
 

Dr. Binayak Sen, a 61-year-old pediatrician, has been sentenced to life in prison, accused of aiding the Naxals, India‘s largest armed guerilla insurgency.

The right has orchestrated a massive public relations campaign to discredit climate science and now a good number of Americans don't believe global warming is really happening.

Popular protest drove Tunisia's president from power last week in a secular appeal for political reform and social justice. What's next for the country?

In a new video series from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, leading environmental thinkers Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and more weigh in on the earth's quickly-depleting oil supply.