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In a democracy, decisions about the use of publicly-owned land and public funds should be driven by robust public debate, including the right of members of the public to peacefully protest.

Why Tim Wu thinks regulators might block a PGA Tour-LIV Golf “partnership.”

The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged.

The case for strict staffing ratios in American hospitals and skilled nursing facilities is remarkably straightforward: They save lives and reduce nurse turnover.

Kissinger is having an extended birthday month. It has also been a month of outstanding watchdog reporting — including new revelations about previously untold mass killings Kissinger was responsible for in Cambodia.

We have global capital organized on energy supplies, organized on food production and distribution, organized on services, and organized on how we communicate. So why aren’t we organized internationally? Why aren’t we equally globally organized?

The results may offer insight into the inconsistency between quantum mechanics and the theory of general relativity, which describes gravity and the behaviour of the universe at very large scales.

With almost four million dead, the saddest story of all is the tale of vaccine nationalism that Menon tells in a world in which neither the words “fair” nor “share” seem much in fashion, but “profits” and “patents” certainly are.

While not a complete victory, the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act places it on its firmest legal ground yet.

The federal government alone is capable of paying the bill. And, as the entity that created and maintains the black-white wealth gap, it should pay the debt.