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Robert Wright, the best-selling author of The Moral Animal and The Evolution of God, has written a new book titled Why Buddhism is True. Don’t be put off by the audacious title, though. Wright isn’t proselytizing or implying that other…
I recently heard a remix of “Famous,” by the Moroccan-American artist French Montana, on the radio station Hot 97, here in New York. Montana’s song, which has been out since last summer, is a light dancehall bop in the vein…
Democrats want to chip away at Republicans’ stronghold in Texas. Tuesday’s primaries are the first test of whether the party has a shot at turning the Lone Star State a little bit bluer. Texas’s Democratic and Republican primaries would normally…
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wants the world to know when he’s in the building. And so now, at Zinke’s behest, the department’s Washington headquarters flies a secretarial flag when Zinke arrives for the day and lowers it when he leaves.…
Republican lawmakers are pushing back hard against President Donald Trump’s quest to impose sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum imports — and some are reportedly even considering using legislation to block him from doing so. Ever since Trump announced on…
Chinese researchers recently tested a demonstration version of a reusable, hypersonic spacecraft in the vast Gobi Desert in late February as part of a major push to become one of the leaders in space exploration, according to a new report.…
