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It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious—a disease-carrying rat population on the ships exporting American culture.

The three dissenting justices use stark language to frame the threat: “The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution. ... No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.”

Stock buybacks. Sales taxes. Loopholes. ... Let's count the ways that tax reforms to benefit the rich and big corporations have exacerbated inequality and drained resources from funding vital public programs.

The “endgame” goal wasn’t achieved. In fact, while the details of the Trump-Tehran ceasefire agreement remain murky, what’s clear is that none of Netanyahu’s three aims have been fulfilled.

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At the 50th anniversary celebration of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City, U.S. antiwar activists drew lessons for stopping the war on Gaza...“Vietnam does remind us that occupation is not necessarily forever...”

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

Providing an alternative to establishment politics and an increasingly right-leaning party made all the difference for Mamdani, argues politics editor Lex McMenamin in this op-ed. Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference

Zohran Mamdani’s victory last night was a straightforward triumph of people over money, the kind capitalist elites try so hard to convince us is impossible. Cuomo’s campaign was bankrolled by $25 million from some of the worst actors in American life