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On “Repeal Day,” remember that the war against alcohol was ultimately a war against political corruption and unbridled capitalism.

You wouldn’t know it from the widespread glorification of America’s “founding fathers,” but the years around American independence were shot through with class conflict between elites and working people. And most of the founding fathers were on the wrong side.

DeepMind’s AlphaCode outperforms many human programmers in tricky software challenges

The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others,

For the time being, the Peruvian ultra-right has sung victory. It has managed to get rid of a president it detested and wanted to overthrow since the beginning of his administration. However, it has not been able to fully impose itself.

Conservatives are obsessed with a patriotism litmus test rigged against Black Americans.

Earth’s largest animals are singing in ever-lower tones, and nobody knows why.

Overall, she has just a 37 percent approval rating, with 54 percent of respondents disapproving.

Humans are evolutionarily drawn to beauty. How do such complex experiences emerge from a collection of atoms and molecules?

More than 500,000 California farmworkers play a critical role in providing Americans with the food that nourishes and sustains their health. Yet, for those workers, their own health is too often in jeopardy.