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Sen. Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue, if she’s interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal. His investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers

It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason for the Trump administration’s attacks on universities. What lessons can we learn from this great exploitation? And now we have Columbia University caving in to Donald Trump.

Repression is certainly in the air, its effects likely to be as chilling as intended: people are afraid and have good reasons to be afraid. Reviews of two recent books on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Long War Against American Communism.

Wins, losses and deep thoughts

Over the past few years, from California to New England, medical residents have been unionizing and striking by the thousands. They’ve composed some of the largest new units to unionize in the United States.

Adam Kirsch’s On Settler Colonialism is an anti-woke screed disguised as serious scholarship.

How the administration seeks to use the venerable children’s care program as an anti-immigrant weapon.

The CBS merger isn’t a business deal — it’s a pay-to-play scheme fueling America’s slide into oligarchy…

The agency will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination.

"There is a purpose to this war, and it’s a criminal one," wrote Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz this past weekend.