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An interstellar traveler has been discovered passing through our solar system.

"They are dealing with the West Bank as if the war is right here."

From a trippy Adult Swim satire to a Star Wars saga, shows this year are making the case to question and push back against the system.

Across Europe, trade unions have a long history of making political demands for universal health care and benefits. The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provi

Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.

The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and other racial minorities an equal right to vote.

Before the Texas disaster, Congress and successive presidents ignored demands to fully fund a nationwide system monitoring rivers for signs of flash floods.

Avi Shlaim is one of Israel’s greatest historians. In his latest work, Shlaim excoriates the genocidal violence that Israel has inflicted on the people of Gaza and takes a fearless stand against what he calls “Zionist fascism.”

Now independent union leader Dan Osborn, who nearly won a U.S. Senate race in 2024, is vying for his seat.