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Trump's Washington Breathes New Life into the Military-Industrial Complex

“If my ordeal exposed authoritarianism and put a spotlight on the suffering in Gaza, I’m happy to do it again and again.”

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If politics is ultimately about communicating in appealing ways, Mamdani is charting a new way forward for the digital era by the deliberate fusion of personal appeals with substantive ones.

Lehrer's songs, by turns gloriously vulgar, ludicrously macabre or ferociously political, were mostly written and recorded before 1960, after which he returned to teaching mathematics and tried to behave as though no one had heard of him.

In theory, the plan, embraced by the EU and the Arab League, could end the Israeli mass killing in Gaza, remove Hamas from power and begin the implementation of a process for a state of Palestine. The question is whether it has any chance of success.

Contrary to long-standing assumptions, human egg cells stay pristine for decades not by ramping up waste disposal, but by dialing it down.

26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every Republican present. Here's how the vote went. The majority of Democratic Senators bucked AIPAC.

Not content to torment the Ivy League, Republicans are seeking authoritarian control over working-class public universities like the City University of New York. The latest salvo: allegedly firing four adjuncts for their support of Palestine.

Columbia University reached agreement with the Trump administration to pay $200 million for "violations;." also agreed to establish a $21 million fund to “compensate employees who may have experienced antisemitism." One professor asks for his share.