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The train wreck that is Twitter, and other fun stuff

Waffle House workers launched a three-day strike in South Carolina in response to low pay, harsh working conditions and staff shortages. They are supported by the Union of Southern Service Workers.

The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.

' No accommodation to racism' in 1905. Smoking causes lung cancer in 1957. Nixon on tape, really? in 1973. FBI admits to burglaries in 1975. CIA admits to more bad behavior in 1977. Forgetting about the Civil War 1917. One last nuke test in 1962.

The history of stovemaking in the nineteenth century, as businesses turned from small to mass manufacturing, is the story of the making and selling of the first universal consumer durable.

Housing is increasingly treated as both a speculative or an investment commodity for the rich and satisfied, and a charitable donation for the poor and precarious, in a system of corporate capitalist rule obfuscated by the language of human rights.

Novice school board members get a hard lesson in politics in a region that could determine control of the House.

Historian Robin D. G. Kelley has uncovered a tradition of African American radicalism that was — and is — a crucial part of the American left’s history. He talks to Jacobin about the need to connect struggles against racism and class oppression.

A biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions

As the court concludes another term that upended lives, conservative justices are attracting criticism for their rulings and their behavior away from the bench