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You know the Rubicon has been crossed when the Supreme Court issues a conservative voting rights order so at odds with settled precedent and without any sense of the moment that Chief Justice John Roberts feels constrained to dissent.

A time for serious reflection and careful observation

Inspired by an anonymous Instagram account and disgusted by bad pay and worse bosses, congressional staffers have begun the uncertain journey toward unionizing.

It is tempting to harness “Civilization and Its Discontents” as a guide to our contemporary political morass, but doing so may obscure its most valuable message.

The Strategic Blunder of the 1990s That Set the Stage for Today's Ukrainian Crisis

Thousands expected at Saturday demonstration as killing of young Congolese lays bare racial fault lines in Brazilian society

Judge J. Michelle Childs' history of harsh criminal justice rulings contrast sharply with the background of another potential nominee, former public defender Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The wonderful, terrible world of Web3, Zucker and Zuckerberg zetzed, and more media mishugas

Over this next century, China wants to use the movies to rebrand itself, and it has learned how to do so from the best.

We are not who we were very long ago. A lot of new ideas have emerged from Buddhism and other traditions emphasizing compassion, equality, nonviolence and critical perspectives on materialism and capitalism