Mark Zuckerberg’s plan for world domination is in trouble. The billionaire Facebook founder recently took to his social network in a bid to save Internet.org,…
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The new sci-fi film Ex_Machina has been teasing back into the cultural dialogue dreams of artificial consciousness: the idea that we humans, through the Faustian power of…
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has published a report that ranks countries according to how well they protect the rights of workers. The Global…
Ever since Milton Friedman’s series of essays on Capitalism and Freedom, conservatives have tried to link democracy and capitalism into essential handmaidens. But as the evidence…
Angus Maddison has noted that India was the richest country in the world and had controlled a third of global wealth until the 17th century. The village was the…
School textbooks in India have been telling children for generations that Rajasthan is an inhospitable state in the northwest of the country, constrained by the…
“Just plain immoral.” That’s how Secretary of State John Kerry recently described those who stand idly by while the world burns—or, worse, obstruct those trying…
The U.K.'s former top climate change diplomat says Shell and other oil companies are fighting tooth and nail to stifle climate change action. The United…
In an article titled “Madness in the Royal Library” published in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen on December 7, 2012, journalist Søren Villemoes accused esteemed chemist Dr. Niels…
“Give up your dreams, if you must. Cease dreaming altogether. Call those dreams and ambitions and visions…delusions. Then you will be ready. Then you can…
On 23rd March Matt Campbell of Sussex, United Kingdom, will go to court against the BBC and will claim that the BBC is in violation of…
We live in a powerfully secular culture, strongly influenced by the methods and findings of science, by a widespread reliance on technology, and by ubiquitous…