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The White House calls them “corporate deserters.” More and more companies are relabeling themselves as foreign to get out of paying US corporate income taxes. Why? How? And what is being proposed to stop them?


The paper and chief television critic Alessandra Stanley don’t seem to understand what she did wrong in her piece about Shonda Rhimes.


How a faint scattering of dust led physicists astray.


Both economic theory and empirical evidence say divestment campaigns don’t hurt the financial interests of the companies they target. But their symbolic power does matter.


There’s so much that’s promising about this new drama — but there are some really clumsy things as well.


The influence of religion in America is declining — and most Americans think that’s a bad thing.


As the show settles back into its groove for its sixth season, the unavoidable question is: who is going to step up and take Will’s place?


There’s a core dispute at the heart of global negotiations over climate change.


And there have been more disturbing allegations against him in the past.


An inside look at where babies come from.


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Emma Watson made a speech to the United Nations this weekend that both launched an initiative for global gender equality and underlined the world’s need for feminism.


Now, more than at any other time in history, the food community is perfectly poised to affect real change in the world. Eater.com talked to Alice Waters, Jose Andres, Jamie Oliver, and so many more on how they plan to do it.


Here are five scenes that prove this series is starting to work as horror (even if most of them were copied from movies).


Experts have been helping rebuild police-community relations — by getting cops to see themselves through residents’ eyes