Puerto Rico was already in trouble after suffering a “lost decade” without economic growth after 2005, leading to a default on its public debt and mass migration from the island. That was before Hurricane Maria.
Today’s decision is devastating. Whatever the court may have intended, the message it relays to Muslim communities around the country and around the world is that our Constitution tolerates transparent discrimination and animus against Islam.
Would the US be better off helping stabilize the Chinese economy, rather than gearing up for a trade war?
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Pankaj Mishra reviews two books on the liberal democratic response to the rule of Trump. While one author aims to beat the right-wing populists at their own game, the other seeks to reinstate socialism as an “ethical ideal and political objective.”
The physicist Lisa Manning studies the dynamics of glassy materials to understand embryonic development and disease.
What’s driving the new wave of unionization sweeping digital newsrooms? The reasons for unionizing haven’t changed much in the last 80 years
Less than a month before his death, when a young Black man solicited his advice to an African American just starting out in the world, Douglass replied without hesitation: "Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!"
The Wisconsin decision ends the notion that all partisan gerrymanders are acceptable.
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