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In less than two weeks, “the gay hockey show,” as so many have generalized it, has become an out-of-nowhere phenomenon at the end of a year in need of one.

The killing of gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab, a known felon and druglord, by one of his own men has exposed the bankruptcy of Israel’s vision for the Strip.

Fighting rages on while President Trump declares deal "a glorious triumph." Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet also signed an economic agreement with the United States to share its mineral wealth including cobalt, copper, and lithium.

The US president’s claims to have ended eight conflicts look shakier than ever as conflict reignites in south-east Asia and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergenc

Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself?

An 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — and blacklisted writers popularized his story for a new generation in the 1950s TV show.

Shows the Path to Mass Municipal Governance

Here are some of the companies that made DEI changes, in alphabetical order, from Accenture and AT&T to Walmart.

“Workers Over Billionaires” was the slogan on Labor Day. It should be the slogan every day.