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They’re not evil, they’re just trying to be practical and useful as a rich but tiny country in a dangerous neighborhood.


These storms aren’t expected to be catastrophic. But it’s a reminder that the sun is capable of much worse.


The courts have destroyed 11 software patents in the last 3 months and are on track to shatter previous records for software patent invalidations.


A hedge fund wants the company to stop giving you so many breadsticks when you show up. But there are bigger problems to solve.


Why the numbers 20,000, 56, and zero are so important to understanding what ISIS is and why it’s so hard to defeat.


The effects of tough-on-crime policy, in three disheartening charts.


It’s super catchy, but its lyrics promote mixed messages.


The new intimate historical epic traces the lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.


The long-term evidence is not reassuring.


Cable companies have some decent arguments against stronger network neutrality regulations. But the industry is so unpopular that the arguments are falling on deaf ears.


One of the world’s best-known economic commentators takes on the question of what we learned from the financial crisis.


A quagmire of inadequate data.


New legislation would direct Amtrak to study how commuter trains and foreign intercity trains work, and explain to Congress why Amtrak doesn’t do the same thing at its biggest stations.


New stats say 23 percent fewer immigrants are getting deported than in 2012. Here’s why that might be happening — and how much to trust the stats


A very simple, concise illustration of how the world is failing at its climate goals.
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