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Forget partisan finger-pointing. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal cuts across party lines, indicting economic and political elites alike. Epstein just enjoyed the perks of life in one of the very top tiers of a society where laws are for little people.

Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. To facilitate these nuclear war preparations, the major nuclear powers have withdrawn from key nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties

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If denial of collective self-determination of a people is a sin of the modern age, as Israeli defenders often repeat, what of the self-determination of Palestinians? Palestinian violence falls and rises when the hopes for autonomy...[are] crushed...

Israeli military leaders reportedly oppose Netanyahu’s plans as the country faces growing diplomatic isolation

Project 2025, framed by former Trump administration staffers and secretly endorsed by Trump himself, proposes changes in Medicare benefits that could destroy Medicare as we know it.

Now, the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority is poised to "end voting rights as we know them."

Multiple statistics show the band-aid has been ripped off the obfuscation of the real condition of the labor market that has prevailed for at least this past year, exposing the long festering wound beneath.

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action.

Democracy is messy