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It’s a nuclear option — but it may be necessary

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

We urgently need to create a people’s movement. Meeting locally and nationally, interested Americans of all backgrounds can form “committees of correspondence” to develop ideas, programs and leaders essential for reconstructing American politics.

In both Minneapolis and New York City, democratic socialist municipal candidates have made strides—and faced backlash from the Democratic establishment.

The city that raised me—this dazzling, sprawling place of freedom and invention—is under siege

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 was not merely a geopolitical event but also resulted, globally, in a profound crisis in revolutionary thought.

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip.

Poet Alison Luterman offers us lessons in neighborliness.

While others were praying for a sane conversation around how to end the rapidly escalating problem of violence, for the President and Stephen MIller it was about the American right under siege—and what Trump was going to do about it