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Giant Chinese tech companies have bypassed credit cards and banks to create their own low-cost digital payment systems.

The authoritarian snoops of the last century would have drooled over the surveillance uses of the smartphones that most of us now carry. Smartphones have, in fact, become one of the primo law enforcement tools other than the Internet.

Austerity prevails in the West because three powerful political tribes champion it.

The realization of Palestinian rights may be a marathon, but right now, it is also a sprint. The race is on, to be made to vanish or to be seen and heard.

Bread "crumbs" found in fireplaces used by hunter-gatherers 14,000 years ago predate agriculture by thousands of years

We won’t hold anyone accountable, not even former leftists, unless the mass movements on the grass roots level continue to grow and organize. They won’t grow through elections.

Shadow chancellor vows party will force ‘irreversible shift in wealth and power’ with most leftwing manifesto in decades.

Rick and Morty is a dialectic of masculinity unmoored.

The Michigan legislature seemed to take bold steps toward improving working conditions for its constituents: It passed legislation that would guarantee workers the right to earn paid sick leave, as well as a minimum wage increase to $12 an hour.

For decades, some of the atomic matter in the universe had not been located. Recent papers reveal where it’s been hiding.