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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, a road construction project backs up traffic in Springfield, Ill. Donald Trump has vowed to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges, airports and railways, but the path to delivering on that promise is full of potholes. When President Barack Obama tried to do it, a Republican Congress fought him at almost every turn, and Trump would have to contend with his party’s deep-seated dislike for government spending and higher taxes to meet the $1 trillion tab for his proposals.  (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File) (AP)

Comparing U.S. infrastructure

Hiba Baroud - The Conversation

Here's how the infrastructure of the U.S. falls short of the rest of the world

Ku Klux Klan, March 2, 1948; White Nationalists August 12, 2017 (AP/Steve Helber)

Hate has happened before

Matthew Rozsa

Sadly, the violence we saw in Charlottesville is nothing new in the hateful history of the American far right

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How warm winters save energy

Keith A. Spencer

Counterintuitively, climate change may actually be reducing electricity consumption under certain conditions

Erik Widner, site manager of EverPower's Twin Ridges wind farm. (Ashley Murray)

PA lags on alternative energy

Ashley Murray - Salon Young Americans

Experts and advocates say the state needs more ambitious renewable energy standards

In this April 6, 2017, photo, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, walks with Chinese president Xi Jinping at the Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Tillerson in Asia

Philip Bowring - The Globalist

While the U.S. short-term focus is on North Korea — China is gaining influence in Asia

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Hacking arrests

Roderick S. Graham - The Conversation

To hackers, whether someone is doing something wrong depends on what hat or hats he is wearing

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Road to single-payer

Steven Rosenfeld - Alternet

The biggest cost drivers are drug prices and the medical billing industrial complex

FILE - In this June 21, 1967, file photo, a crowd of hippies keep a large ball, painted to represent a world globe, in the air during a gathering at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21, day one of "Summer of Love." (AP Photo, File)

Lessons from Summer of Love

Don Hazen, Danny Goldberg - Alternet

An interview with the author of a new book "In Search of the Lost Chord," explains how 1967 influenced the present

Red cross teams use boats to evacuate people  after river Danube flooded the old town of Passau, southern Germany, on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Raging waters from three rivers have flooded large parts of the southeast German city following days of heavy rainfall in central Europe. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Europe's ill-timed floods

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central

In northeastern Europe floods are happening about a month earlier than they were 50 years ago

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Tech in schools

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media

From flipped classrooms to bring-your-own-device programs, what you need to know if your school is going edtech

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Travel like an economist

Jay L. Zagorsky - The Conversation

Go to an ATM — using your home currency in a foreign land can significantly inflate the cost of every purchase

A helicopter drops water on the fire as crews battle the Sunshine Fire in the Sunshine canyon area of Boulder, Colo. on Sunday, March 19, 2017.  (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP) (AP)

Heat in the northwest

Eric Holthaus - Grist

The effects of climate change are exemplified in the country's weather patterns

(AP/Alex Brandon)

Send in the drones

Jeffrey Ulrich - Alternet

First employed as a tool of war, drones are getting an eco-friendly makeover

(AP/Keith Srakocic/Charles Rex Arbogast)

White privilege in NCAA sports

Anya Alvarez

It's time we talked about how colleges let affluent white students be supported by African-American student labor

Detroit (Annapurna Pictures)

Women of the Detroit rebellion

Lisa Biggs - The Conversation

Older women, including their aunts and mothers, discouraged shoplifters from taking items from the grocery stores

(Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

New Trump campaign ad

Taylor Link

The beleaguered president launched a tone-deaf attack ad at Democrats and the media, as he still plays to his base

Kendrick Lamar (AP/Amy Harris)

Lamar has no time for Trump

Max Cea

The president could learn a thing or two from the rapper

Niecy Nash on Claws sex scenes

Alli Joseph

Preparing for on-camera intimacy is both mental and strategic, says the TNT star

"The Trip to Spain" (IFC Films)

Inside "The Trip to Spain"

Tom Roston

The latest "Trip" film sees the actors drinking their way through the Iberian Peninsula and midlife crisis

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Leaving the nest

Katherine Sargent - Motherwell

At least one of my daughters sleeps in my bed every night. I complain, but the truth is I want them there

(AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Lynch sits

Taylor Link

His head coach gave the perfect response to his player's decision not to stand

The band Toto accepting a Grammy Award, Feb. 23, 1983. (AP)

Why Toto's "Africa" endures

Annie Zaleski

How an '80s soft-rock classic became a beloved, enduring pop culture reference

Sophie Turner, Isaac Hempstead Wright, and Maisie Williams in "Game of Thrones" (HBO/Helen Sloan)

Survival: The Stark superpower

Melanie McFarland

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. If that's true, the Starks are the hardest family in Westeros

(Alex Wong)

About those State Dept cuts...

Nadia Rubaii, Max Pensky - The Conversation

The State Department has established programs to incentivize and pressure states to act against war criminals

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