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Taiwan and the South China Sea are the likeliest points of conflict — but conflict is not an option. The stakes could not be higher — and Washington may be off on the wrong foot.

Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated black artists. In Struggle, his series of paintings on the American Revolution, he opened up new territory in American history- beyond had become synonymous with black art.

The failure of Hudson Yards should be both an object lesson and an opportunity. Grotesque hyper-luxury, with taxpayer subsidy no less, has had its day. Let’s build for regular people. Hudson Yards could be a monument to what was, and could still be.

Contrary to Trump and GOP claims, records clearly show that Trump campaign staff members planned, organized and secured the permits for the Jan. 6 MAGA insurrection rally.

Elections turn the tide in Ecuador and Haiti, and reports from Russia, Vietnam, India, and Google workers of the world!

This new publication brings the work of this astonishing novelist, a satirist and humorist of biting insight, to new audiences.

How a coalition of the left, the US Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and others organized to make sure Biden took office.

"Her ordeal remains a flagrant miscarriage of justice."

The GameStop saga was more than a simple tale of upstart traders taking on big business. But it highlighted again how disconnected Wall Street is from ordinary workers — and new polling finds that even more Americans now resent Wall Street.

The Law Enforcement Assistance Act of 1965 began the process of Congress’ providing “military-grade hardware” for local police departments, enabling local police to produce heavily militarized responses to anti-racism protests today.