Apparently, being a loudmouth racist politician doesn’t put you in the best place with your customers when you own a business; the rise of a “Jewish Islamic State” in the West Bank is quite alarming; and at this point, we should be able to eradicate AIDS, so why haven’t we? These discoveries and more below.

Trump’s Campaign Is Damaging His Brand New data obtained by Politico Magazine shows that among the high-income consumers Trump’s business relies on, his reputation is plummeting.

Does ‘Mein Kampf’ Remain a Dangerous Book? There was a lot said last week about the re-emergence, in Germany, of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”)—which just became legal to publish and sell there, for the first time since the end of the Second World War, albeit in a heavily hedged “scholarly” edition.

Why Israel Has Silenced the 1948 Story of Nazareth’s Survival A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth’s survival.

A New Lithium-Ion Battery That Won’t Erupt in Flames Researchers at Stanford University used nanotechnology to solve a longstanding problem among electrically-driven devices, from airplanes to so-called hoverboards.

Graduate Students at Private Universities Could Soon Have the Right to Unionize A pending NLRB case could reverse 12 years of labor limbo for student workers at private institutions.

Climate Insurgency In December of 2015 – the earth’s hottest year since recordkeeping began — 195 nations met in Paris to forge an agreement to combat global warming.

A Jewish Islamic State Rises in the West Bank They reject modern political states and their institutions. They want to return to an imagined earlier era of religious order. They are extreme, fundamentalist, and violent. What separates so-called Hilltop Youth from young Jihadis?

Are Women Underrepresented in News Coverage? News leaders regularly discuss and scrutinize their news agencies’ work to gauge how well it reflects the diversity of the communities they cover.

Love Your Dog? You Should Thank Garbage Just south of the equator, thirty miles off the coast of Tanzania, sits a small island called Pemba.

Why Unions Are Worried About SCOTUS The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case about a California teachers’ union that has a lot of progressives very nervous.

Thank Neanderthals for Your Immune System Genes inherited from our ancient cousins may have helped fight off disease.

No More Excuses. We Have the Tools to End the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Why does this global pandemic continue to rage?

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