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Since launching a war against Iran, Trump has had not presented a coherent statement of his objectives. But before he was president he repeatedly stated a single clear objective for a President to launch a war. Here are Trump's own words.

The U.S. and Israel claimed Khamenei was in hiding. “This is just fabricated drama to make Trump look bigger and more dramatic than he really is,” stated a senior Iranian official. Khamenei’s secret location, it turned out, was simply his office.

When the media cover war

The Mexican Revolution inspired an extraordinary cultural efflorescence, with painting as its leading art form. The spectacular murals of Diego Rivera, inspired by Mexico’s popular history and culture, are the most remarkable legacy of that period.

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there.

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

Artificial intelligence is unlikely to produce permanent mass unemployment, Vivek Chibber argues. But without class struggle from below and state action, automation will deepen inequality and leave workers to bear its costs.

Nearly $2 trillion of wealth has evaporated from the global crypto market since October. Outside of crimes and scams, the technology is useless, and its economics are even worse.

White supremacy has always been used to usher in massive economic inequality