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OCTOBER 12 In History 539 BCE : The Persian armies of Cyrus the Great captured Babylon .  Within the year, Cyrus would make it possible for the Jews to return to their homeland. 1285: The Jews of Munich ( Germany ) were caught in a claim of blood...

Good Sunday morning and happy final week of November. President-elect Donald Trump is heading back to New York City around 4:30 p.m. this afternoon, per the WSJ’s Damian Paletta, today’s print pooler. Here’s to hoping he doesn’t mess up LaGuardia traffic...

EMERSON T. BROOKING AND P. W. SINGER NOVEMBER 2016 Direct link to the publisher – Like most every­thing today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion...

Today’s collection of headlines form the realms of economics, politics, and the environment begins with a tale of sobering implications from RT: Self-organizing robot armies produced – and all thanks to ingenious termite logic Harvard ...

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris talks to economist Glenn C. Loury about racism, police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, and related topics. Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor...