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He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

We might at the very least be honest with ourselves. We ship our waste to the other side of the planet not only because we produce far too much of it but also because we insist on an environment exorcised of our own material footprints.

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.

Musk’s attacks on federal employees and their unions aren’t just a threat to the specific workers in his current line of fire. They pose an unparalleled danger to every single American.

The European takeaway

Organized labor could be Trump’s kryptonite

A sordid history to remember and the horrific prospects of a vice president's embrace of Germany's neo-Nazi party.

Native American activist moves to home imprisonment after Joe Biden commuted sentence at end of presidency

From Stonewall to Tesla dealerships, protesters are pioneering a form of opposition that doesn't necessarily center on Washington, D.C..

Neoliberalism’s Embrace of Cruelty and Its Assault on Social Bonds