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The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.

Weather extremes are not natural. They are climate disasters. They the kind of catastrophes that Big Oil companies predicted their fossil fuel products would cause—at the same time that they were orchestrating fraudulent campaigns of climate denial..

Over the past year, Harvard University has systematically curtailed, suspended, or restructured every program with a serious focus on studying Palestinian rights. It’s abundantly clear that some views are not welcome on this campus.

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This episode feels symbolic of a World Cup where the global game has been sacrificed to Fifa’s cynical money-making – and Trumpian whim

New York's Israel Day Parade revealed a widening divide between officials willing to challenge Israeli policies and those still prepared to stand beside their most controversial defenders.

The high court’s Callais ruling is already being used to delete majority-minority federal districts. But its most catastrophic impact may be felt closer to home.

In Winooski, Vermont, where more than a third of children are English learners, a school superintendent has invested in protecting immigrant students even as one of his own was detained.

This is a conservative defense of the Western Tradition against its progressive critics, the book a well-researched and engaging – if unmistakably political – narrative history of Western civilization.

More than 3,500 Nevada state employees in administrative and clerical roles voted to join AFSCME Local 4041.