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The ballot initiative process is a crucial way for the public to make its voice heard, especially when gerrymandering gets in the way.

The Republican presidential debate last night was an unhinged parade of War on Terror–style militarism and paranoid saber-rattling. With or without Donald Trump, the GOP has absolutely lost it.

Palestinian voices and news from around Asia

UAW President Shawn Fain talks with Steven Greenhouse about a unified working class, new organizing, battery plants, Biden and Trump.

More than 100 economists including Thomas Piketty and Jayati Ghosh publish open letter ahead of country’s 19 November election

This "brilliant act of novel-making," writes reviewer Orringer, "builds a wholly believable and infinitely faceted reality around" the experiences of two fathers that each lost a child to war, and the friendship that developed between them.

And we’ll do it again

By pursuing its current war with Hamas, Israel is working against the goal of preserving the nation state of Israel.

The Arab Spring cemented Twitter’s indispensable role in fast-moving international stories. Elon Musk has destroyed that and given us something useless — and dangerous.

Rethinking Israel, Jewish identity and antisemitism