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It is tempting to harness “Civilization and Its Discontents” as a guide to our contemporary political morass, but doing so may obscure its most valuable message.

The Strategic Blunder of the 1990s That Set the Stage for Today's Ukrainian Crisis

Thousands expected at Saturday demonstration as killing of young Congolese lays bare racial fault lines in Brazilian society

Judge J. Michelle Childs' history of harsh criminal justice rulings contrast sharply with the background of another potential nominee, former public defender Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The wonderful, terrible world of Web3, Zucker and Zuckerberg zetzed, and more media mishugas

Over this next century, China wants to use the movies to rebrand itself, and it has learned how to do so from the best.

We are not who we were very long ago. A lot of new ideas have emerged from Buddhism and other traditions emphasizing compassion, equality, nonviolence and critical perspectives on materialism and capitalism

The court’s order “does a disservice to Black Alabamians who under that precedent have had their electoral power diminished—in violation of a law this Court once knew to buttress all of American democracy,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote.

Why hasn't the overwhelming popularity of Medicare for All—85% of Democrats, 66% of independents and 52% (!) of GOP support it—translated into legislative majorities?

Ukrainians of all ethnicities deserve genuine support to resolve their differences and find a way to live together in one country—or to separate peacefully.