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Government needs to restore the competence of public systems and not wait for crises.

We analyzed 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot—and found a new kind of American radicalism.

"Israel, as an occupying power, has a responsibility to provide vaccines to the Palestinian people," the first-term congressman asserted in a letter to Israel's acting consul general.

One Night in Miami is incisive about the pressures of Black celebrity, and its central dialogue circles the question of what its characters—all icons in their own right—owe to both the Black community at large and a nascent civil rights movement.

Fascism, conspiracy theories, the GOP, theocracy, white nationalism, loneliness, burnout, and other fun stuff

The pandemic and its mishandling are upending decades of economic orthodoxy in the US and across the West

Gig economy companies and organized labor are at war over the future of work and the definition of “employee.” Proposition 22 in California is the model of such third-category legislation, which excludes Gig workers from basic labor rights.

The corporate assault on democracy hasn't been as violent as the pro-Trump mob who stormed the Capitol. And it's entirely legal. But it's arguably more damaging over the long term.

The escalation from rhetoric to violence was all too familiar for reproductive justice advocates.

Marking a major step to change the agency's direction, the National Labor Relations Board's new acting general counsel withdrew 10 of his predecessor’s key anti-labor policy memos.