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The AG trying to restore norms, but so far he’s let the people who shattered them get away without consequence.

John Reed’s thrilling dispatches from the front lines of the Mexican Revolution could have made him a pop culture celebrity. Instead, the experience made him a committed socialist.

The labor pattern ECP scientists envisioned treated the new systems as super-charged desk calculators operated by people like Snyder who, they believed, would not create new knowledge. 

He played gigs to a young Elvis, got high with the Grateful Dead and made an enemy in Miles Davis. And, at 83, the saxophonist who collided jazz and rock still has his spirit of adventure.

Revenue from the U.S. estate tax has been cut in half in two years, new data from the Internal Revenue Service shows, even as dynastic wealth soars.

Chileans face a stark choice in the second round of their presidential election – a far-right candidate who admires the legacy of Pinochet or a left-wing reformer pledging to tackle social inequality.

About one in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.

There’s no legal right anywhere in the United States to self-defense against systemic injustice. By contrast, there is a right, in many states, to “stand your ground.”

People with scant illusions about Trump are volunteering to help him execute one of his Big Lies.

Researchers in South Africa are studying whether a new variant of the Covid-19 virus is more transmissible and whether it causes disease that is more severe or milder than that produced by other variants.