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Could there be a “hidden reality” that’s completely predictable, understandable, and deterministic underlying what we see?

It's hard to say a story is a blistering indictment of privilege without making it seem medicinal, which The White Lotus is not.

Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.

In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to successfully change that.

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album from Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Oscar Brown, Jr., fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Today many Black artists—women at the forefront—are taking similar strides.

A lot of questions remain about Congress' path forward to repeal military authorizations that empowered presidents to put boots on the ground and conduct airstrikes. Here's what we know.

The climate crisis haunts Chicago’s future.

"Israel, as an occupying power, has a responsibility to provide vaccines to the Palestinian people," the first-term congressman asserted in a letter to Israel's acting consul general.

We analyzed 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot—and found a new kind of American radicalism.

Government needs to restore the competence of public systems and not wait for crises.