Joshua D. Rothman reviews Zaakir Tameez’s biography “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation.”
The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.
Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich.
The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.
In a new memoir, New Left leader Michael Ansara wants to impart lessons from his own time as a campus activist to today’s protesters. But his later role in a corruption scandal that set back Teamsters reform for decades offers its own cautionary less
For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
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MMA was once used to curry favor with Putin. Now, Trump is using the UFC to project a nationalist cult of masculinity
On the Fourth of July, members of the military are calling on Congress to protect service members who disobey the president’s immoral or unlawful orders.
This 4th of July, may we all gather with Fannie Lou Hamer and the moral fusion family closest to us – both the living and the dead – to recommit ourselves to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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