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A rare inter-Korean women’s soccer match offers something the Korean Peninsula desperately needs: hope.

The Trump administration broke the law, Michigan and others told a court, by declaring an “energy emergency” and forcing an aging coal-burning plant to keep operating.

The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here’s how scientists discovered it.

Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act.

Pakistan may have appeared as an unexpected mediator in the negotiations to end the Iran war. But the country, taken over by a military regime after the ouster of populist PM Imran Khan, has recently been making a major play on the world stage.

Scott Joplin’s luminous musical parable on the evils of ignorance is uncannily attuned to the present moment.

A new book defends a Marxist theory of the origins of capitalism. Along the way it shows why understanding the transition from feudalism can help us make sense of the present.

Apple’s superbly twisty thriller about a beautiful camboy blackmailing a divorced mum is like the new No Country for Old Men – with added Nick from New Girl

Workers at the Long Island Rail Road, serving the eastern New York metropolitan area, walked off the job on Saturday

In ‘Silencing Fighting Bob,’ Eric T. Chester chronicles the brutal assault on political dissent by the administration of President Woodrow Wilson during the war.