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Berkeley’s David Broockman and Washington University in St. Louis’s Daniel Butler got state legislators to randomly tell constituents about their views on issues where they disagreed. The constituents changed their minds.


Want to send your partner to pick up Plan B for you? He might not be able to help.


Dude, where’s my raise?


Obama admittedly, implicitly, that ISIS didn’t pose an imminent threat to the US homeland. Here’s why that’s a huge deal.


The most important points from Obama’s big speech announcing America’s new plan for destroying ISIS, explained.


The president makes the case for military action.


The world actually got together and stop a major environmental crisis before it’s too late.


A DVD of the footage was sent to league offices in April, the source says.


Critics say proposed net neutrality rules don’t do enough to protect the open internet, and today they’re staging an internet-wide protest.


Aerial views from NASA’s Earth Observatory.


Obama’s big new military plan to fight ISIS won’t work unless deeper political issues in Iraq and Syria can get resolved. Here’s why.


Here’s why Obama flip-flopped on trying to destroy ISIS in Syria.

After decades of little success, the federal government is changing its approach to the war on drugs.


Apple didn’t reveal one watch yesterday; it revealed 34.


So how worried should we be?