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NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela

As has been true for over 200 years, the next president will be chosen by an eighteenth-century anachronism. American voters deserve better.

Despite a laudable positive outlook on the future, Bastani’s “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” lacks an in-depth exploration of capitalism and technological development.

Vast tracts of land owned by African Americans were taken from them in the 20th century. At the heart of the story is racism in many forms.

Just weeks before the Trump Administration placed sanctions on the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, he was invited to meet with the President at the White House.

Trump administration Justice Department took the unusual step of overruling staff prosecutors to reduce the settlements sought, leaving billions of dollars in potential recoveries on the table.

The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.

Miners and their families have occupied a railroad track, blocking a train that’s loaded up with coal that these workers dug out of the earth and never got paid for.

What makes the difference in the end isn’t the skill (or ineptitude) of the negotiator, but the workers’ solidarity and fortitude on the picket line.

Republicans conflate love of Israel with love of America because they see Israel as a model for what they want America to be: An ethnic democracy.