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Poet Lola Haskins offers these pieces about the 2004 Iraq War from her book The Grace to Leave, first to remind us that in that war the body count for Americans reached 4,492, and second, that its shadow has never dissipated.

America’s current credit rating masks a fatal contradiction, and a downgrade is the only honest assessment of an empire in decline. The expanding war in Iran and the subsequent crisis in the Strait of Hormuz have fractured global energy supply chain

As inequality grows, states are stepping up where the federal government hasn’t. ‘It’s a movement,’ says Patriotic Millionaires’ Chuck Collins. Washington isn’t the first state to pass a so-called millionaire tax, and it won’t be the last.

We spoke to Saturday Night Live’s Sarah Sherman about doing body horror at a time of real horrors, the hope at the heart of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty, and her emergence as a top local canvasser for Bernie Sanders’s last presidential run.

A system of concentration camps is being built and it's time the nation reckon with this monstrosity before any more people are killed. ICE detention camps now threaten to become a central instrument of repression under the Trump administration.

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Meatpacking workers face an uphill battle as they fight for better conditions. Union density in the industry has fallen precipitously. Up to 90 percent of meatpacking workers belonged to unions in the postwar era, but only 15 percent did by 2019.

Ken Burns’s new three-part documentary shows why it’s not too late for us to learn from the great naturalist

In “Stay Alive,” Ian Buruma paints a picture of the city dwellers who survived in Germany under the Nazis.

Everything from interminable lines to near-miss collisions and controller burnout predates Trump. It’s a metaphor for the long-term neglect of public systems.