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In WeCrashed, it isn’t just that the Neumanns were so charismatic or that people looked the other way. People wanted to believe in changing the world.

The Sacramento school district is pleading poverty in the face of demands for more student support and a pay raise to keep up with inflation. Teachers and school workers aren’t buying the district’s excuses and now they’re on strike to make change.

Israel cannot wholeheartedly join sanctions against Russia or denounce its war crimes while leading a diplomatic campaign against the Palestinian-led BDSanctions Movement, or against proceedings in the International Criminal Court.

The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.

Jamaica in the 18th century was described by Charles Leslie as a “constant mine, whence Britain draws prodigious riches.” More Africans arrived in Kingston to become plantation slaves than arrived in any other place in the British empire.

When Russian bombs are destroying Ukrainian cities, there's reason to focus on oligarchs supporting the Kremlin. But do American multi-billionaires and Saudi princes enjoy less political clout, stash less money abroad, and use influence any better?

Heightened rhetoric about Russia and China seeking to undermine American influence will only reinforce Washington’s support for repressive regimes. The consequences of that could, in turn, prove to be potentially disastrous.

Many conservatives don’t think the 2020 election was stolen. But they believe democracy itself has betrayed America, by allowing the ‘wrong’ people to take charge.

The anti-war movement needs to raise the issue of NATO expansion.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, “prison warehousing”—which used to be a derogatory term—would look like an upgrade. At least warehouses care about the value of the goods they store.