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Musk’s attacks on federal employees and their unions aren’t just a threat to the specific workers in his current line of fire. They pose an unparalleled danger to every single American.

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.

We might at the very least be honest with ourselves. We ship our waste to the other side of the planet not only because we produce far too much of it but also because we insist on an environment exorcised of our own material footprints.

He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

Peter Beinart on the story of Israel and the moral blind spot of the Jewish diaspora.

The best way to counter our ongoing billionaire coup? We might want to look east for a five-step set of initiatives designed to cut the super rich down to democratic size.

Use media to fight

“What is most important is not what people with unbridled power can impose on us, but rather on what we can do as human beings, as political actors.”

Neoliberalism’s Embrace of Cruelty and Its Assault on Social Bonds

From Stonewall to Tesla dealerships, protesters are pioneering a form of opposition that doesn't necessarily center on Washington, D.C..