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If nothing gets out of a black hole, how does gravity do it? Something with virtual gravitons? Is this really necessary? It's tricky question, but this is what I can say without resorting to equations.

If our goal is a robust democracy and working-class power, the experiences of the Civil War-Reconstruction era and the Second Reconstruction of the 1950s-’60s provide crucial lessons for breaking out of our current impasse.

The outcome of this catastrophic war, even if touted as a “victory” by either side, will only be the exacerbation in the suffering of our people, and a hastening towards our country becoming a failed state.

The distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is quite simple, and the protesting students recognise it.

And this is the policy Republicans and their presumptive presidential nominee are vowing to extend if they win in November.

Now that the state has fair election maps, the only thing stopping the left from flipping rural districts is themselves.

You may not agree with their demands. And you might not like their strategy. But here is what I think everyone should know and be deeply worried about.

Grassroots organizer and former Marine Zach Shrewsbury is vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate against a Manchin-backed candidate and an ex-coal excecutive in the state’s Democratic primary in May

The idea that billionaires should pay a minimum amount of income tax is not a radical idea. A global coordinated minimum tax on the superrich will not fix capitalism. But it is a necessary first step.

POLITICO Magazine asked leaders of campus news organizations to set the record straight about campus unrest, antisemitism and what the media is getting wrong. Here's what 14 of them saw and what they think.