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Why are banks no longer lending to each other? Are they afraid that collapse is imminent somewhere in the system, as with the Lehman collapse in 2008?

Jacobin talks to Fidel Narvaez, the ousted Ecuadorian diplomat who handled Julian Assange’s case about why Lenín Moreno caved to international pressure, broke his promises, and gave Assange up to British authorities.

There are a lot of unsolved mysteries in the Universe, but dark energy is the most confusing. Here’s why.

More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.

A Forgotten Chapter in the Working-Class Fight for Democratic Rights

But the Kurds have never stopped resisting.

Policymakers should reconsider how the tax code treats the most well-off. Here is a closer look.

We get a crash course in how the bounty-hunting system works, complete with the Bounty Hunters Guild taken extremely literally as an actual unionized workforce of bounty hunters. There are labor disputes over clients refusing to pay guild rates.

Arkansas teachers and students face a well-funded school privatization effort backed by major corporate entities with influence that stretches from the Governor’s office to the state Board of Education to the University of Arkansas.

Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again.