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The young crown prince wants to end decades of power-sharing. His gambles could shake up the kingdom and the Middle East.

Opioid overdose claims 175 Americans each day, but powerful pharmaceutical companies continue to promote their sales.

Not even pedophilia is out of bounds for a political movement that is less animated by religiosity than resentment.

An interview with the democratic socialist who just knocked off one of the Virginia GOP’s legislative leaders.

Schneider-Man. Bint El Shalabiyya and Kalinka Mashup - Maan Hamadeh. 'Jobs, Jobs, Jobs'. What Are the Paradise Papers? Proof of Evolution That You Can Find on Your Body.

After Trump’s victory over Clinton, women realized how much the country needs them in politics.

Dana Cloud, who was targeted herself, offers a guide for other academics.

Ju-Hyun Park grew up in Northern California. In his early childhood, he remembers, people asked, “Where are you from?” That question later shifted to “North or South Korea?”

For the past 50 years, some of this country’s most celebrated historians have taken up the task of making Americans less stupid about the Civil War.

November 7, 1917, the American writer John Reed said, was "Ten Days That Shook the World." A hundred years on, the anniversary of the October Revolution is celebrated and debated. But, for more than seventy years the revolution inspired millions around the world, in the belief in socialism, and for an end to colonialism. The failures of the Soviet Union have not however diminished the hopes, aspirations and renewed faith in socialism - a socialism of a different type.