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Midwest mid-crisis

A new law makes clear that corporations derive their powers from states, and they don’t necessarily include the right to spend on elections.

JFK’s Profile in Cowardice (1961), Marvin Gaye’s Greatest Hit (1971), George Washington, Frustrated Enslaver (1796), Can’t Repeal an Anti-Racist Law? Then Just Try to Forget About It. (1951) Blacklist Victim Lives to Laugh at Witchhunters (1956)

Internationalism must go beyond protests and resolutions. We should ask not only what kind of government we are demanding but what kind of foreign policy progressives intend to implement once achieving governing power.

“The robots are coming” needn't be understood as heralding the apocalypse. An automated society in which states and worker-owned enterprises use technology to serve public ends while meeting individual needs is entirely consistent with the good life.

In the memoir, "Hidden Recipes," Eva Moreimi recounts how her mother, Ilona Kellner, while a prisoner at Buchanwald, collected more than 600 recipes, which she hid from the guards in a small pouch in her coat.

A rare inter-Korean women’s soccer match offers something the Korean Peninsula desperately needs: hope.

The Trump administration broke the law, Michigan and others told a court, by declaring an “energy emergency” and forcing an aging coal-burning plant to keep operating.

The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here’s how scientists discovered it.

Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act.