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These books raise questions and arguments about job satisfaction, inadequate compensation, long hours, and morally injurious employment in pre-pandemic form.

An obscure and wildly consequential tax rule allows billionaires to pass vast sums of wealth down to their heirs tax-free.

Decarceration advocates urge lawmakers to consider sentencing reform instead as prisons have seen high rates of Covid outbreaks

"President Biden has the power to remake the postal governing board and remove DeJoy. He must act."

This has become a common refrain among the cautious—and it’s wrong.

How close did the United States come to a presidential coup d’état on January 6, 2021? This is among the questions Bob Woodward and Robert Costa ask in their new book. It's a question the nation needs to ponder, as well.

From Brazil: Deep thoughts on electoral politics and fighting fascism

William Monroe Trotter rejected the view that racial equality could come in stages.

Physics is what powers the beautiful circus machine, even if the audience is completely oblivious.

What artists can do is bring stories to the table that are unshakably true—the sort of stories that, once you’ve heard them, won’t let you return to what you thought before.