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British courts have upheld the government’s proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. A series of abuses of the legal process ensured these outcomes were all but predetermined.

An alliance with the president was the Israeli prime minister’s selling point. Now it may be his downfall.

For most of the 20th century, class predicted voting behavior better than anything else. The recent process of class dealignment has proved disastrous for left politics — and to reverse it, we must have clarity on who counts as working-class.

It's AI's world, we just live in it

Anti-Trump fervor rises

Thinking strategy in a time of hard choices

There is a popular view that this is a pointless war, being fought for nothing. But that is wrong—there is a purpose. Actually, there are several. You’re just never told what they are.

Freedom does not become real simply because it is declared. It becomes real because someone carries it into the world. Someone teaches it. Someone protects it. Someone organizes around it. Someone refuses to let it disappear.

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The war against Iran was launched against a backdrop of already ongoing energy transition. Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the Earth, and none of it goes through the Strait of Hormuz.