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Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb's first deep-field image taught us lessons we've never realized before.

The Fed knows inflation is a problem born of insufficient supply that only governments can tackle. But that doesn’t look like stopping it from pushing the US economy, and everyone else’s, into recession.

A few years ago, commentators were announcing the demise of the Latin American left. But if Lula wins this autumn’s presidential election in Brazil, the Left will be governing the region’s six largest economies for the first time.

Owned by a billionaire Dutch family, Blue Harvest Fisheries has emerged as a dominant force in the lucrative fishing port of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Its business model: benefit from lax antitrust rules and pass costs on to local fishermen.

The Republican transformation of the federal judiciary in the 1860s and 1870s served the party well in the Civil War. But in the end, Lincoln and Grant’s high court appointments ended up being disastrous for civil rights.

Gay rights, corporate scheming, and family drama make for a taut and densely plotted episode on For All Mankind

Over the past decade, a low-wage workforce that chases solar installation projects from state to state for meager wages has proliferated around the country.

At the top there’s corruption, down below there’s dismantling and disarray. Americans are entering a period of immense danger

Stockton is conducting a basic income experiment — and the early results are in.

Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering.