Human ancestors with higher metabolic rates outpaced ‘couch potato’ primates thanks to sweat, says new study. “The result is that we are an energetically unique species.”
As fear of ICE raids and deportation mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the Los Angeles rebuild and to support their families.
A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable. Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they forced the robber barons to contend with workers.
The quid pro quo deal between the president and the mayor of New York City will throw open the foreign corruption floodgates. As the Trump administration moves to drop the case and gut any remaining independence out of the DOJ, damn the consequences
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented an imperialist horror show. An American and an Israeli, each with his own criminal indictments, decided to determine the future of the Palestinian people.
Interview with Dr. Maurice Jackson about his new book on the use of sport and music. Traditionally not fields touched on extensively in intellectual history, the book builds on both of these to create a rich tapestry of life in Washington, D.C.
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The best way to counter our ongoing billionaire coup? We might want to look east for a five-step set of initiatives designed to cut the super rich down to democratic size.
Peter Beinart on the story of Israel and the moral blind spot of the Jewish diaspora.
He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.
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