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A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.

It’s not the nuclear deal that’s the problem for Tel Aviv, but the very idea that Washington and Tehran would reach any detente at all.

Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.

OAS has always functioned as foreign policy arm of the imperial overreach of the United States government

Carlsen’s winning score of 7½-3½ with three games to spare is the most lopsided result in a world championship match since José Raúl Capablanca’s triumph over Emanuel Lasker exactly 100 years ago in Havana.

Schitt’s Creek offered its audience a vision of capitalism free of prejudice and exploitation. The absurdity of this fantasy was both the source of the show’s limitations and its brilliance.

An estimated 60% of large employers use workplace monitoring tools, some of which can be used to chill organizing.

We don’t need patent monopolies to finance the development of drugs or vaccines.

The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on.

America’s first peaceful transfer of power was far more fraught than is generally understood today and casts cast an eerie light on the not entirely peaceful transfer of presidential power in 2020-21.