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Human Rights Watch is the latest watchdog to accuse Israel of perpetuating a version of the racist legal system that once governed South Africa. Israel says the charge is baseless.

Leftist lawyer Michael Tigar has spent his life in courtrooms defending a wide range of names big and small on the Left, from Vietnam War draft resisters to Bobby Seale and Angela Davis. He captures them all in a new memoir.

From Mesopotamian irrigation to McDonalds, the bestselling food writer tells Oliver Milman that his new history of food is his most important work

Minari is a gentle, universal story about a resilient South Korean family trying to make it in 1980s America. You should watch it.

The culture wars turn bloody, Republicans split, and more developments in a time of turmoil

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey just introduced a new plan to employ millions of Americans in good-paying jobs that respond to climate change. Who’s in?

Our nation has a positive constitutional obligation to redress segregation with policies as intentional as those that segregated us.

The relationship between the US and Saudi Kingdom was famously sealed in a 1945 meeting on the Suez Canal between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abdul-Aziz. In exchange for oil, the US government would provide them with security and military aid

News of the World embezzles actual events to promote a favorable fictional narrative of westward expansion free from Indigenous complications.

In March, 495,000 women entered the labor force, but the figures betray the harsher economic situation for Black women and many have dropped out altogether.