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Seriously, What's The Matter With Kansas? | Politics News

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images For the past
PUBLISHED: June 12, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1386 words)

Natalie Maines: A Dixie Chick Declares War on Nashville

Natalie Maines Mark Seliger
PUBLISHED: June 6, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1726 words)

Bruce Springsteen's Political Voice

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform onstage at SiriusXM's 10th anniversary celebration at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York March 9, 2012. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri   This article…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3228 words)

Cyber and Drone Attacks May Change Warfare More Than the Machine Gun

The new look of drone-enabled war. Reuters.From state-sponsored cyber attacks to autonomous robotic weapons, twenty-first century war is increasingly disembodied. Our wars are being fought in the…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2864 words)

The Occupiers: A Liberal and a Radical Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

Last fall, Daniel Murphy and Ben Zucker devoted themselves to Occupy Wall Street for very different reasons. Today, they represent two forces that threaten to pull the group apart. …
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1583 words)

Earth Station: The Afterlife of Technology at the End of the World

The Jamesburg Earth Station is a massive satellite receiver in a remote valley in California. It played a central role in satellite communications for three decades, but had been forgotten until the…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5865 words)
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Academic turns city into a social experiment

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES One of former Bogot Mayor Antanas Mockus' many inspired strategies for changing the mindset - and, eventually, the behavior - of the city's unruly inhabitants was the…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2290 words)

We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction

Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids and supervolcanoes, but the more-likely scenario,…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4950 words)
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