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Joshua D. Rothman reviews Zaakir Tameez’s biography “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation.”

When Jeanette Jara’s victory in the left primary was certain, President Boric, congratulated her and said, 'Now, let’s all work together for unity to rally the majority of our compatriots to continue building a fairer, safer, and happier country’.

For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

In a new memoir, New Left leader Michael Ansara wants to impart lessons from his own time as a campus activist to today’s protesters. But his later role in a corruption scandal that set back Teamsters reform for decades offers its own cautionary less

The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.

For many Democratic operatives, the victory of the Left in the Democratic Party, now represented by Sanders, the Squad, and Mamdani, would be a catastrophic blow, at least as obnoxious as MAGA and Project 2025. 

Along with the turnout of 50,000 volunteers who embraced the Mamdani campaign, the NY WFP, achieved the following: Knocked 7,750 doors; made 126K phone calls; organized 300 early voting poll site and over 200 election day poll site visibility shifts.

This 4th of July, may we all gather with Fannie Lou Hamer and the moral fusion family closest to us – both the living and the dead – to recommit ourselves to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.