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Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

You cannot negotiate with a regime you are trying to destroy. Trump’s oscillation between threatening to blast Iran “back to the Stone Ages” and describing “very good and productive conversations” is the logical endpoint of an incoherent strategy.

Orbán has brought together a mind-boggling assortment of elites in the cause of ethno-nationalistic anti-liberalism—a cause, clearly, that can unite communists and capitalists, Jews and antisemites.

Mythos Preview appears to represent not an incremental change but the beginning of a paradigm shift. According to Anthropic, the bot has been able to find thousands of software bugs that had gone undetected, sometimes for decades.

Beyond its human toll, the Middle East crisis is hitting jobs, incomes, and working conditions worldwide. Early action is critical to protect labour markets, especially for vulnerable workers, small businesses, and low-income households.

Poet Daniel Spector meditates on Empire, the disappeared and resistance.

Party leaders have been doing everything in their power to avoid confronting the US-Israeli war in any meaningful way. Trump’s war is deeply unpopular. He is losing it badly. Its continuation would be a catastrophe. Democrats must go all in.

The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them. Taxing the rich to save social insurance has the further virtue of splitting Republicans, who are divided....

The vote suggests ballot measures could become a powerful new tool for grassroots activists seeking to block data center projects.

Instead of weakening New York’s landmark climate law, Gov. Hochul could choose to meet its targets. Hochul’s choice to roll back the law inevitably signals a concession to fossil fuel interests, which have spent millions seeking to lobby the governor