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On June 5, 2013, the Guardian broke the first story in what would become a flood of revelations regarding the extent and nature of the NSA’s surveillance programs.  Facing an ...

President Obama faced a difficult task in his speech on reform of the NSA's surveillance activities. As an ...

North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant ...

The 98th Annual League of Municipalities Convention luncheon on November 21, 2013, was supposed to be the traditional ...

Political messaging in Washington is, if nothing else, obvious and transparent. Fallout from ‘Obamacare’ threatens the remaining three ...

The reasons for the illegal lane closures at the George Washington Bridge in the Bridgegate scandal are still ...

One of the most intriguing theories advanced in Bridgegate by Steve Kornacki that seems most plausible to my ...

People around the world have passed judgment about the life of Israel’s most controversial leader.

Canadians pay some of the highest prices in the industrialized world for often terrible cell phone service.

    It is unlikely that Curtis Reeves, the retired police officer accused of killing Chad Oulson and ...

What is the quickest route to international recognition? Aspiring states may try to ally themselves with a great ...

Growing up in Tucuman, a medium-size city in northern Argentina, I had the opportunity to see a small ...

The Elk River spill could be the future of many American cities. It’s one in which systems failures ...

On the heels of his headline-grabbing overture to buy The New York Times, Chinese recycling magnate Chen Guangbiao ...

Bridge-Gate – The Cliffhanger  The past few months have been a slowly unfolding whodunit turned into a blockbuster ...

The term “bubble” is now part of everyday conversation, particularly since the financial crisis of 2008. But bubbles ...

The great lie of American higher education is the idea of the university. We all believe these places ...

There are clear links between mortality rates and the way countries invest in healthcare and improving social conditions.

The high cost of low prices for food stretches far beyond retail casualties in the food sector.

Chris Christie has always encouraged voters to see him as anything but a politician. His lips seem to ...

Forty years ago, the most important wildlife protection measure in U.S. history was signed into law by President ...

Of all the numbers thrown at us over the course of last year, one stands out for me. ...

Decades of insecurity and war have provoked a heavy toll on children’s lives and well being. An under-5 ...

The U.S. economy is gaining strength. But the “Obamacare” train wreck, festering problems in faraway China, and uncertain ...

Here’s a fact most Americans—and Canadians—probably don’t know: Canadians live longer than people in the United States. Specifically, ...

On Nov. 21, Ukraine announced it would not sign an Association Agreement with the European Union at the ...

  It's been exactly a year since gun lover and business manager of the popular YouTube show FPSRussia ...