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These midnight voyages are playing out across the country, as the federal government struggles to find room for more than 13,000 detained migrant children — the largest population ever — whose numbers have increased more than fivefold since last year

Controversial appointees who were rammed through hearings, or political careerists nominated for strategic reasons and confirmed despite scant vetting, handed down decisions that expanded slavery and rolled back civil rights.

The GOP economic agenda roars ahead unnoticed while the Trump circus jiggles and barks under the spotlight

Riemann recast the mathematical world’s view of algebra, geometry and various mathematical subfields — and set the stage for the 20th century’s understanding of space and time.

On September 17, the New York Review of Books published excerpts from the secret Israeli Kahan Commission investigation into the massacre of more than a thousand Palestinian civilians in Lebanon’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camp 36 years ago.

It is not clear how far the F.B.I. will go in pursuing questions related to the accusations like the extent of Judge Kavanaugh’s drinking in high school and college.

What we thus need is a strong discussion in how local governments, particularly in cities, can influence technology in a progressive direction.

Building on Labour’s manifesto commitment to bring key utilities back into public ownership, for the first time McDonnell has outlined in detail how they would do it.

The point of an activist reading of Capital is not to figure out what Marx ‘really’ wanted to say but to use the text as a platform to explore the worlds in which activists now live, work and struggle.

“We’re not going to get a good trade deal until workers have more political power in all three countries.”