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Job creation has come to a near halt. What explains employers’ reluctance to create new jobs in an expanding economy?

‘No Kings’ Has Long Pedigree (1795), Jim Crow Can’t Ride (1870), Halloween Parade Grows Up (1985), Whose Right to Vote? (1890), Hope for Everything, Expect Nothing (1920), When Communists Filled Madison Square Garden (1940), Racism’s Admirers (1890)

Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?

A proposed 2026 ballot measure would limit the powers that the state grants in its corporate charters.

Difficult as it may be, unions must organize workers in the nation’s largest and most powerful corporations, and they cannot afford to wait for labor law reform or a more favorable administration to do so.

Adam Silver became the NBA commissioner in 2014. Since then, he has wholeheartedly embraced sports gambling while making games harder for ordinary people to watch.

Peter Beinart interviews Muhammad Shehada on the Trump plan: Israel’s plans for the more than half of Gaza, Palestinian public opinion of Hamas, Potential role of international peacekeepers, Emerging rival criminal gangs in Gaza

A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents of rising authoritarianism in the US.

A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients.

From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.