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The passion around his presidential campaign can be channeled into transforming Congress. We’ll pool resources across the US to beat big money.

'What we want today is for this movement to spread,' says a leader of the CGT, which is organizing the protests.

What is the true economic narrative about the 1990s? Was it a time of shared American prosperity brought on by smart policy? Or was it a time when the style of laissez-faire attitudes forged in the 1980s was co-opted by Democrats and began to create the growing inequality and periodic crises we’ve since become used to?

Neanderthals and Denisovans may have supplied modern humans with genetic variants that let them thrive in new environments.

The exiled Persian poet Majid Naficy draws on Christian parable (the Book of Matthew), suggesting that some of the irate voices on our streets are not enemies but prophets.