“Disintermediating the state,” one 3D-printed gun at a time. The odyssey of law school dropout who turned into a crypto-anarchist. The CIA claims to be able to…

A group at MIT built an app called the Moral Machine, “a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as…

In "News From The Onion," New Study Finds Most Of Earth’s Landmass Will Be Phoenix Suburb By 2050. Mintpress details how the cozy relationship between current presidential…

This is the Election 2016 Thread: The place to discuss anything and everything about the U.S. presidential election and its candidates. We’re making this thread as various…

The LA Times today has an excellent OpEd regarding the fact that almost to a one, immigrants don't commit crime. This has certainly been my experience. When…

The American labor movement has always been characterized by struggle, struggle against capital, against authoritarian public-sentiment, and against government opposition. American labor has also traditionally espoused a…

"Lead poisoning in the US: 'A silent epidemic'" Why children in the US are still being poisoned by lead every year. Puerto Rico needs budgetary help, that's…

Professor Robert Cialdini has been studying how people are influenced, using psychological compliance techniques for decades.  These techniques are universal and unconscious and extremely difficult, even impossible…

In a wide-ranging interview yesterday, with The Texas Standard, Hillary Clinton's anti-abortion, far-right VP candidate, Tim Kaine, spilled the beans on how Clinton plans to betray the…