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Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

Taiwan Needs a New Deterrence Strategy

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Court Quashes Subpoenas to Anti-Defamation League in ASU Pro-Palestine Student Protest Case

David Hume, Political Philosopher

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Economic Development Subsidies Create a Lot of Jobs—Mostly for Lobbyists

Abdul El-Sayed Fuses Together Two Toxic Ideologies

Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making

Why some nitrogen-processing enzymes are more efficient than others

Lessons From Singapore: Embracing Globalism

Lawyer Challenges Suspension for Being Too Phishable; No Dice, Says Appellate Court

"Sonny Rollins was the last feral master of an art that has become at least partly domesticated"

Nolan’s Odyssey v. Homer’s Odyssey

EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected