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AOC, Ro Khanna rivaling for future of Democratic Party?
There is a quiet internal negotiation over what the next version of the progressive movement looks like, who defines it, how broad it gets, and whethe...
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Jeanine Pirro cracks down on violent Navy Yard teens; punish the parents, too?
Video footage of a disturbing incident has gone viral on social media. It shows a group of teenagers trashing a Chipotle restaurant, hurling chairs at...
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Ticketmaster's monopoly verdict opens the door to real reform
A jury ruled that Live Nation-Ticketmaster is a monopoly in violation of federal and state antitrust laws, and the states that brought the case should...
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The 1996 Everest disaster and our eternal contempt for the wealthy
In mid-May 1996, eight climbing guides, Sherpas, and their paying clients lost their lives on Mount Everest. A brutal storm contributed to the tragedy...
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The caregivers you've never heard of are in crisis
This workforce and the home and community-based care system that supports them is in crisis....
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When students spoke up for academic freedom
Students at Texas Tech and UT Austin are staging mock funerals to protest the restrictions on academic freedom being imposed by the boards of regents,...
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Weaponized antisemitism: the new national security threat from Iran
This is the new face of Iranian warfare: moving from online incitement to offline violence without ever deploying a single sovereign agent....
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Trump should turn the tables on Xi’s Taiwan threats
Trump could have agreed with the entirety of Xi’s remarks about Taiwan as a determinant of regional stability and U.S.-China relations, then noted tha...
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Trumpflation won’t be temporary
Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs program has reversed the disinflation trend, causing inflation to rise to 3.8 percent in April, and while it is unlikely to...
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The 2028 US presidential election needs to be a landslide
Landslides give winning parties mandates to act....
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How not to run an election: California edition
California's "jungle primary" system, which allows candidates of all parties to run against each other on the same ballot, is a chaotic and confusing ...
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When remote work reaches a jury, flexibility is what will hold up in court
Recently, a Brooklyn jury delivered a $3.1 million award against National Grid for denying continued telework to two dispatchers with medical conditio...