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Today's autocracies range “from theocracies to monarchies, that operate more like companies,” united by “a laser-focus on preserving their wealth, repressing their people and maintaining power at all costs."

A gripping film about the fight to unionize workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island might be an observational documentary at heart, but this in-the-trenches portrait of grassroots organizing doesn’t leave any doubt as to whose side it's on.

Grocery prices are still up from prepandemic numbers in the U.S. but— relatively speaking — they are the cheapest in the world.

Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.

Heightened efforts in recent years to paint public schools as bastions of ideological perversion, sexual permissiveness and anti-white ideology are part of a long-running campaign that is gaining momentum.

Trump supporters will never go see 'The Apprentice' and anti-Trumpers won’t be able to bear two hours watching the bane of their existence rise to wealth and power. This lack of a clear audience spells an unfortunate box-office bomb.

Health halo refers to the perception that a food product is generally good for us based on a single claim, casting subliminal power over our diets and dollars.

Six former WWE staffers paint a hostile picture of working under McMahon, calling him the leader of a "kingdom ruled by fear."

Poet Peter Neil Carroll offers a wry and humorous look at the interplay between his progressive ideals and life’s daily joys.

Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.