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(04/22/12 9:57pm)
In February, ASU hosted TEDxAshokaU, a conference dedicated to “ideas worth spreading.” One of the presenters was 20-year-old Dale Stephens, a grade-school dropout who is building a career out of attacking the premise of formal education. After self-schooling through grade 12, he went to college for one year, then dropped back out to speak and write on why others should do the same.
(04/16/12 12:18am)
September 11, 2001, was a bad day for American Muslims. Angry and afraid, people of all stripes lashed out at perceived threats.
(04/09/12 10:21pm)
Prescott’s Unitarian Universalist Fellowship holds a “Civil Dialogue” speaker series every month.
(04/01/12 10:35pm)
Last week, Americans went just a little crazy in convenience stores nationwide. The multi-state lottery game Mega Millions reached a record-high jackpot of $640 million, and some stores had trouble selling tickets fast enough. A prize that big, apparently, can make even the dumbest bets feel worthwhile.
(03/25/12 9:57pm)
In the last five years, some 50,000 people have been killed in Mexican drug violence. Based on a New York Daily News analysis of statistics from the Mexican Attorney General’s Office, those numbers translate to about one death every 30 minutes in 2011.
(03/11/12 9:41pm)
In its fourth year, the Republican campaign against President Barack Obama has still not identified its target.
(03/04/12 9:24pm)
When he spoke at ASU last month, Noam Chomsky had an interesting take on our current campaign cycle.
(02/26/12 10:30pm)
On Thursday, the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a report titled “Primary Numbers: The GOP Candidates and the National Debt.” The report breaks down proposals from each of the four remaining Republican candidates and forecasts their financial impact under pessimistic, optimistic and middle-ground scenarios. So far the numbers don’t match up with the campaign debt-reducing rhetoric.
(02/19/12 10:51pm)
Almost two weeks ago, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling overturning California’s controversial Proposition 8, the ballot initiative purporting to ban same-sex marriage.
(02/12/12 11:07pm)
Students from ASU’s Students for Justice in Palestine and Muslim Law Students’ Association packed the law school’s Great Hall last week for an appearance by MIT professor and world-renowned foreign affairs commentator, Noam Chomsky.
(02/05/12 11:21pm)
Richard Dawkins spoke at Gammage auditorium with ASU professor Lawrence Krauss on Saturday.
(01/29/12 10:56pm)
GOP DEBATE ON LUNAR BASE
(01/22/12 11:08pm)
America stands perilously close to war with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(01/08/12 10:23pm)
There is a reason Congress lets our debt keep growing.
(11/30/11 11:05pm)
On Saturday, NASA launched a one-ton, nuclear-powered mobile laboratory into space, beginning a long trip to the beautiful Red Planet, Mars.
(11/16/11 11:38pm)
Maricopa County has seen dark days.
(11/09/11 11:34pm)
Three years have passed since our last presidential contest, and the recession endures. In 2008, our economic crises took then-candidate Barack Obama’s electoral victory from likely to inevitable. This year, economic malaise continues to define our politics, as Republican candidates fight for the right to represent their party next time.
(11/02/11 10:32pm)
There are 7 billion people on Earth this week, and some of us are starting to feel crowded.
(10/26/11 10:32pm)
At 8 a.m. on Monday, I turned up for work on time, but wasn’t needed. So with my morning unexpectedly unscheduled, I went strolling — shirt and tie — through downtown Phoenix.
(10/20/11 11:25pm)
Last Sunday, a passenger car hit the concrete divider on Tempe’s Loop 202 Freeway.