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Their primary challenge will be harmonizing the many voices of protest into a mighty chorus of defiance. The movement has a ...

This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West.” Invoking the Manhattan Project, Karp and Zamiska want Silicon Valley to ...

Around sunset on March 25, Fatema Ahmad, executive director of the grassroots Muslim Justice League in Boston, was winding down after a call with a group of attorneys. They had been strategizing their ...

Bidenomics foundered on ten years of Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality.

In 2013 Charles Murray traveled to the Galápagos Islands to deliver an address to the Mont Pelerin Society—that font of neoliberalism, founded in 1947 by Friedrich Hayek. But Murray’s talk didn’t run ...

In an image shared around the world, Elon Musk is seen grunting while waving a chainsaw over his head at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington in February. Perhaps less ...

On September 26, 2014, more than a hundred students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, a men’s school in the coastal state of Guerrero, commandeered five public buses and headed for Mexico ...

How Can the Democrats Win? Rick Perlstein, with Ruy Teixeira, Elaine Kamarck, Robert B. Reich, and others. Rajan Menon on the standoff in Chechnya; Martha C. Nussbaum on why women were mutilated in ...

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