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UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari explains why Apartheid is not enough to explain the root causes of the Palestinian crisis.

Trump fumbled it in 2020. The Republicans will try again next time they win the White House.

The country’s so-called new religions have caused a disproportionate amount of turmoil.

Medicare for All would take the profit motive out of insurance; public manufacturing of prescription drugs would take it out of providing care

Young people in the labor movement want to bargain on climate issues in contract negotiations.

The Tollywood blockbuster RRR is a hit on Netflix, but its casteist politics aren’t so simple.

Expiration dates could be more meaningful if they were based on scientific studies of a food’s rate of nutrient loss or microbial growth. A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat

Ten Florida men with felony convictions have been charged with voter fraud because prosecutors say they registered and voted illegally. Critics say the punishments are unfair.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is wildly popular among Mexicans at home and abroad. It’s not just because of his domestic policies: AMLO is also playing a key role in challenging US dominance in Latin America.

The U.S. still has a chance to fix itself before 2024. But when democracies start dying—as ours already has—they usually don’t recover.