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A former union leader wrestles with the challenge of making construction work the path to the middle class it once was

The president of Wesleyan University explains why he’s allowing pro-Palestinian protesters to pitch tents on campus.

New research explores why some octogenarians have exceptional memories.

Only a fool doesn't understand that eventually there will be a Palestinian state. And we Israelis are the biggest fools.

Scandals, culture wars, and threats to democracy dominate the headlines in this super election year. But anti-democratic populist authoritarianism is itself the legacy of a misbegotten economic ideology.

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Reader Comments: Graduation 2024; College Presidents Cave to GOP in Congress; Why University Divestment Matters; We Need “Outside Agitators”; Diary of a Palestinian Living in Israel; Lots of Announcements; Cartoons; more.....

I don’t believe that Beethoven was interested in everyday politics. He was not an activist. He was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was concerned with moral behavior and the larger questions of right and wrong....

You know who has good reason to fear for their safety? People, many of them Jews, getting pummeled by cops and fascists. People getting high-powered rifles aimed at them from rooftops by agents of the state told to be ready to shoot....

Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around solidarity with Gaza.