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We laugh even before we can speak, but why? Science has some answers to the mystery of human laughter, and some of them might surprise you

This month the most extremist elements of Europe’s radical right will mobilize in marches, concerts, and remembrances of the defeat of Nazi Germany. They are also hoping an election in Slovakia, will provide them with a victory at the ballot box.

Brazil’s ex-president talks about memory, camaraderie, resistance, and politics 50 years after her political incarceration.

A dictatorship-era torturer is suing one of his victims in Brazil in a stark reminder of how Bolsonaro emboldens rights abusers.

February 3rd marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 15th Amendment, which was adopted to give Black people access to the ballot after the defeat of the slavocracy. We can honor the amendment by fighting to keep its promise.

Risk of Nuclear War Rises as U.S. Deploys a New Nuclear Weapon for the First Time Since the Cold War

The two-state solution is no longer a viable political objective or a useful plan for thinking about the problem. Officially, however, it is still honored, even by those who privately know the truth. It is, in effect, a “Dead Solution Walking.”

Republican devotion to the Great Dictator held. Trump is gloating. But impeachment responded to a challenge to democracy that had to be answered.

The ‘Spartacus’ star helped end the Hollywood blacklist

In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry