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Urban spaces are often designed as subtly hostile to certain uses. Think about seat partitions on bus terminal benches that make it harder for the homeless to sleep there or decorative leaves on railings in front of office buildings and university campuses that serve to make skateboarding dangerous.

Warning: What you are about to read is not about Russia, the 2016 election, or the latest person to depart from the White House in a storm of tweets. It’s the Beltway story hiding in plain sight with trillions of dollars in play and an economy to commandeer.

Food, eating rituals, cooking techniques, and dining habits are all tiny and wonderfully significant daily performances. For one artist, these havits of everday life became the stuff of her art.

US survey finds two-fifths of people between 65 and 80 report being sexually active, but topic is rarely discussed.

Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist. Marx was never content to sit back and let history take its course; he felt compelled to persuade, to use the workings of the news cycle as bits of evidence that his world view is the most sound.

The Kentucky Derby is closely intertwined with Black Americans’ struggles for equality,

The large and growing volume of data gathered shows that the N.S.A. continues to collect significant amounts of information about Americans’ phone and text messages after changes made by Congress in a 2015 law, the USA Freedom Act.

AFSCME 3299 authorizes strike; nurses, healthcare workers to strike in solidarity

The drama of data collection has made it to prestige TV

Moving to a Graduated State Income Tax in Illinois. The state tax system would become fairer, more sustainable, and better for the Illinois economy. All that’s needed is the bipartisan political will.