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What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels?

There is a “brain gain” afoot that suggests a national homecoming to less bustling spaces.

How elections are stolen; Austin turns the tables on abortion funding; Arnautoff Murals; Progressive prosecutors; Ecofascism; Brutality at the camps; Sotomayor sounds the alarm

Tarantino succeeds in superimposing two meta-narratives: the end of the Western and the self-destruction of the counterculture. Both stories are symptomatic of the war in Vietnam, though here Vietnam is little more than background.

He neither expected nor asked much of his adopted country—basically just the chance to earn a paycheck and be free from government and employer intimidation.

Timothy Faust’s new book is part history, part manifesto, and part irreverent tour guide to America’s deeply flawed health insurance system.

Two trains are running in opposite directions. One is racing toward a nuclear weapons-free world. The other is spending unimaginable fortunes to upgrade their omnicidal nuclear arsenals and making "mad man" threats to use them.

It’s not that complicated. GM has been highly profitable, and workers haven’t forgotten the sacrifices they made to prop up the company.

The future of work means fewer hours spent working.

To save the planet, a Green New Deal has to transform our entire society. Part of that transformation must include the deconstruction of our system of mass incarceration.