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Lawyer and Trump admirer has risen rapidly in the polls and will face Iván Cepeda in election runoff in three weeks

Researchers are preparing to launch an unprecedented trial to protect people exposed to Ebola in the DRC and Uganda

The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.

In much of the US, Democrats’ reputation is utterly toxic to working-class voters. Running independent candidates may be the way forward for labor and the Left in many regions — potentially planting the seeds of a new party.

The modern idea of the freedom of the seas is collapsing in the Strait of Hormuz.

At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.

A last-minute deal headed off a planned strike at Samsung, the Korean electronics giant. The unions have shown that a sustained campaign backed up by the willingness to strike can extract concessions, even from one of the world’s most powerful firms.

As its third season ends, Sam Levinson’s HBO show reflects the grim future that gen Z faces. Its rage-bait is precisely the point

One of my favorite quotes from an early populist leader posed the enduring question: “Why is it that those who work most get least, and those who work least get most?”

CounterSpin interview with Alex Main on war on Cuba