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Unless they are able to act successfully to protect themselves and their rights, 2.4 million federal workers face a grim future. Alongside the prospect of hundreds of thousands of layoffs, Donald Trump has moved to...

Alex Gibney It’s about what I’d call “an unholy alliance” between big business and evangelical Christians who are extremely antiabortion. The evangelical Christians had popular fervor, a very emotional issue, and some popular support. There...

What could we expect from Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, elected pontifex maximus in March 2013? It’s true that he was a Latino, which was already quite a change. But he had been elected by the same...

Nostalgia for a bygone gender regime is more than a weird social media trend. It reflects larger system pressures — on elites facing technological disruption that might generate social unrest, and on ordinary women buckling...

Carnival celebrations in Germany’s Rhineland region are characterized by five things: Music, costumes, flowers, candy, and giant, handcrafted floats, many of which function as life-size political cartoons. On all fronts, this year’s festivities — concentrated...

Brandon Mancilla The question of Palestine has been concretely felt at workplaces and especially at universities. Campuses are facing a direct attack on free speech and the rights to protest and to academic freedom in...

Indignation and resistance to Donald Trump’s bullying, deportations, and economic reprisals are spreading across Latin America. Though the mainstream media has amply covered pushback from Canada and Western Europe and the street protests and town...

Tariffs are a national conversation with shifting edicts coming almost daily from the White House. Pundits, free trade “globalists,” and MAGA nationalists contend full-time on cable television. The debate extends to the labor movement, with...

Ho-fung Hung Economists and policy advisors both within and outside China have always thought that the best course of action is to boost domestic consumption. It is theoretically easy to do. There have also been...

Giuseppe Di Vittorio drew the curtains and turned on the large chandelier, two of whose bulbs were out. The drafts from the windows let in the bitter cold of that evening in December 1938. The...

Review of Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference by Rutger Bregman (Little, Brown and Company, 2025) Dutch historian Rutger Bregman can hardly complain about a lack of media attention. His...

Often in history, there’s no blow struck by the enemies of a great power more fatal than the one it inflicts on itself. The British invasion of Egypt in 1956, for example, and the ensuing...