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...this political violence is not happening in isolation. The murder of these 11 Jews in Pittsburgh is inextricably linked to the murder of the two black shoppers in Kentucky, to the slaughter of black worshipers in Charleston in 2015...

We are already paying a high price for inequality, but it is just a down payment on what we will have to pay if we do not do something—and quickly. It is not just our economy that is at stake; we are risking our democracy.

The president and his supporters insisted that several thousand Honduran migrants were a looming menace—and the Pittsburgh gunman took that seriously.

The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel is the newly released final volume of a trilogy, and about as curious as anything from Feiffer’s pen, ever.

The more a leader stokes the hate, the less he can claim that he couldn't have imagined the results.

As of 2016, about 80% of people in genetic studies were of European descent. We know humans originated in Africa but we don’t know what we did before we emigrated — we don't know our own history.

UBS report shows billionaires increased fortunes by $1.4tn, more than the GDP of Spain

Donald Trump’s economic advisers released a bizarre report attacking socialism yesterday. Socialists can only take one lesson from it: we’re winning.

Here, ‘reform versus revolution’ is not a useful way to frame the dilemmas that socialists must actually confront. Political hopes are inseparable from notions of what is possible.

How activists are racing to create a midterm Black wave.