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UnitedHealth Group’s investors were profiting from its high denial rates. Now, they’re suing to ensure that doesn’t change.

From viruses to humans, life makes microproteins that have evaded discovery until now.

“If you, as a climate activist, don’t also fight for a free Palestine and an end to colonialism and oppression all over the world, then you should not be able to call yourself a climate activist“

Most of the world agrees that apartheid inside a country’s borders is the epitome of injustice. Why, then, are we so ready to accept a global version of it?

Under any interpretation, Israel's attack is clearly illegal under international law, not that anyone seems to care anymore. Israel's attack on Iran is best understood as a continuation of its attempt to remake the Middle East through force.

In Greenfield Ma., a small city of 17,000 in rural western Massachusetts, 3000 people turned out for No Kings Day.

Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?

The kind of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace is part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.

Riffing on an ancient myth, poet Alan Dugan finds a lesson applicable to our current predicament.

The loss prevention industry is excited about using technology to combat shoplifting. But workers are getting caught up in the dragnet.