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The ‘Debate Is Over’: World Reacts To IPCC Report

A guide to world climate leaders’ reactions to the IPCC’s latest report on the impact of humanity on the world’s climate.

Jon Queally
作者 Jon Queally
Visitors walk past images of a climate color coded globe of the world projected on the Geo-Cosmos, a sphere with a diameter of 6.5 meters (21 feet), Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007, at Tokyo's MeSci, or The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. The dark red/black areas represent no current changes in climate. The lighter red/pink areas represent some sort of change in climate and the white areas symbolize a very high level of change. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Following the release of the IPCC's first installment of its fifth assessment report (AR5) on climate change in Stockholm on Friday, environmental groups, experts, and activists from around the world were reacting to the findings contained in the report and commenting on the implications it will or should have as the planet faces the

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Presidents Of Iran And The US Speak For First Time Since Iranian Revolution

A brief phone conversation between Presidents Obama and Rouhani furthered speculation that a U.S.-Iran détente is at hand.

Common Dreams
作者 Common Dreams

President Obama and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone on Friday night, the first time the leaders from the two country's have communicated directly in more than 30 years. As McClatchy, calling it a "stunning and unexpected development," reports: Obama made the unplanned call to Rouhani as the Shiite Muslim cleric was being

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Palestinian Authority Cracks Down Amid Criticism Of Renewed Negotiations

A series of violent incidents in the West Bank reflect a growing skepticism of the PA’s legitimacy among Palestinians.

Patrick O. Strickland
作者 Patrick O. Strickland

RAMALLAH — The Obama administration appears to have put the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the back burner once again. Negotiations were renewed in July after months of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s shuttle diplomacy. Yet their status is uneasy after the killing of two Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. In Hebron, a sniper

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A Tale Of Two Filibusters

Compare Ted Cruz’s faux-filibuster to Rand Paul’s real one and you’ll find the secret fault line that divides the Tea Party.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
作者 Jeffrey Cavanaugh

The ‘talking’ filibuster – that ancient relic of a once-functional U.S. Senate – made another appearance this week in the form of a 21-hour verbal jeremiad by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). While the freshman Republican may have diverged from telling Americans once or twice that Obamacare – the President’s signature domestic legislative achievement – is

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Study: Facts Are Irrelevant To The Political Game

A Yale University study shows how people cease to be rational in the political arena.

Trisha Marczak
作者 Trisha Marczak

A new study alludes to a notion that the partisan political divide in America is inspired more by emotion and allegiance than fact. The study, authored by Yale University’s Dan Kahan, gives credence to the argument that when it comes to politics, the truth really doesn’t matter. Titled “Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government,” the

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Racial Bias Highlighted As Court Demands Retrial Of Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ Case

The original trial wrongfully placed the burden of proof on the Black defendant in a self-defense case, an appellate court has ruled.

Frederick Reese
作者 Frederick Reese

In Florida, a recent state appellate court decision is forcing open the conversation of the fair application of “stand your ground” laws. In May 2012, Marissa Alexander, a mother of three who had just given birth to her third child a week before the incident in question, fired a “warning shot” into the wall after a physical altercation with her

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