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His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist.

Ukraine sees the future of naval warfare. The White House doesn’t.

The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the TPNPB’s fighting capacity, but they still often face Indonesian jets and missiles armed only with bows and arrows.

The challenges Chicago’s progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson, has faced demonstrate that Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York will have to out-organize what’s soon to be a mighty opposition to his every move from finance, insurance, and real estate intere

Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found.

Revolutionary transformation cannot do without revolutionary subjectivity and therefore cannot leave aside the question of religion.

The Education Department’s reclassification of ‘professional degrees’ is the latest installment in a long history of excluding Black people, women, and working-class people.

Tango has long chronicled those times. In doing so, it continues to offer a vocabulary for confronting a world where decency is in short supply and moral responsibility and kindness even more so.

Nonviolent movements that have toppled oppressive regimes, prevented coups and transformed societies follow these four essential steps.

The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on the health care crisis.