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Pro-democracy protests are common in Hong Kong, but they’ve never been met with the kind of police response that came down on demonstrators in recent days.
Two-thirds of Swiss voters opposed creating a state-run health plan in the national referendum.
To understand the protests sweeping Hong Kong, you need to understand the important role protest movements in China have played in modern Chinese history. We asked a historian of protest in China to break it down.
The director of the FBI is blasting Apple for beefing up iPhone security. But unbreakable iPhone encryption isn’t a threat to public safety.
Grades are higher these days. But is that necessarily a problem?
The TV season is only a week old, but it might already have its worst episode.
The negative effects of same-sex marriage bans extend beyond LGBT couples.
Men and women are finding work again, but for women, dropping out of the labor force is still more likely than finding a job.
There are a few reasons to think a Yahoo/AOL merger would make sense, but a big one is that it could help Yahoo avoid billions in taxes.
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mount an international response to stop the Ebola epidemic, director Thomas Frieden sat down for a frank conversation with Vox about the outbreak.
As do the other forecasting models.
The who, what, when, and how of Obama’s planned big move
These tweets from Patrick Chovanec put Hong Kong’s events into crucial context.
Forbes has updated its list of America’s richest people, and here are the key facts from their reporting.
The battle over solar power in the US, explained.