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There cannot be democracy for Jews in Israel as long as Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid, as Israeli legal experts have described it.

Changing the world — because it needs it

Cop City, beyond contributing to over-policing, will require clear-cutting 381 acres of forest land.

As the court concludes another term that upended lives, conservative justices are attracting criticism for their rulings and their behavior away from the bench

Staggered 18-year terms would bring regular turnover to the bench. The result would be a Court that better reflects prevailing public values.

The world needs millions to join in this fight, this fight back! In the United States, there have been models enough of genuine patriots. There is a need for U.S. patriots who are at the same time “world patriots.”

And that means the Court, by deciding this case, exercises authority it does not have. It violates the Constitution. . . . [T]he majority overrides the combined judgment of the Legislative and Executive Branches. . . . I respectfully dissent . . .

In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives. Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury, in a piece called “The Death of ‘Deliverism,’” argued otherwise.

This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, November 2023).

This billionaire’s legacy? Two-thirds of all Italians between the ages of 18 and 34 are now living at home with their parents because Italy’s “miserable starting salaries mean young Italians generally cannot afford their own place.