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The bad and the beautiful

All you need to know about Andy Serkis' absurd adaptation is that it starts with a barnyard rap.

Long a major progressive influence in New York politics, the Working Families Party has released its first national platform ever—and it has the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna on board.

A Haaretz investigation reveals how grain stolen from occupied territory in Ukraine has been sold to Israel. The profits of the shady operation are financing Putin's war

Many feminists urge a transition toward a dual-earner/dual-carer system in which women and men alike earn money and provide unpaid care for their families and communities. But is this possible in the current economic system?

“When you read his manifesto, he hates Christians,” Trump told Fox News. “He hates Christians, a hatred.” But that’s not what the manifesto says. If anything, it appears that Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus Christ might have provoked Allen.

Genetically diverse groups arrived in three waves, some potentially carrying genes acquired from long-ago Australasian ancestors

What is it about cookbooks that lend themselves so fluidly to self-reflection and experimentation alike? As Hannah Goldfield puts it, the form “evinces something encouraging: a curiosity about how other people live, the texture of their days.”

What happens when scientists are right and nobody wants to hear it? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly explore the frustrating history of brilliant minds who were ignored, mocked, and punished for telling the truth.

In the aftermath of the “No Kings Day” demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the participation of people of color generally, and Black people specifically, has been limited.