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Donald Trump once told voters he was fighting a corrupt political system. With Elon Musk operating with impunity throughout the federal government, Trump has taken political corruption to new and unprecedented lengths. Donald Trump and...

Elon Musk is reconnecting with his country of birth. In recent weeks, he has rustled up a global right-wing panic over South Africa’s land ownership laws and affirmative action policies, culminating in Donald Trump issuing...

Excerpted from Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia by Malise Ruthven (Verso Books, 2025) Saudi iden¬tity is a complex mix of Wahhabi-Salafism — a sectarian Islamic cult based on strict observance of...

Late one Friday night, just weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump (likely illegally) fired more than a dozen inspectors general, the independent watchdogs charged with overseeing operations at federal agencies and auditing allegations of waste, fraud,...

Not long before he was gunned down by the Chicago police in 1969, Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party and chair of its Illinois chapter, observed, “You can’t build no revolution with...

One Thursday night in October, I noticed a man in his mid-twenties sitting alone at a Pennsylvania brewery where I host a weekly trivia night. But he didn’t spend the night drowning his sorrows. Instead,...

Following last June’s European Union (EU) elections, Italy again has a party in the EU-wide Left group. This presence owes not to one of the many parties of Italy’s postcommunist diaspora but to the Five...

At a rainy protest in front of Senator Chuck Schumer’s office in midtown Manhattan Thursday, the target could be identified by the chants: “Elon Musk has got to go.” Organized by Indivisible, a volunteer-driven group...

For most of human history, a simple axiom for survival seemed to prevail: Don’t build houses where there is too little water. Amid dangerous droughts, Arizona officials recently enshrined that precept by limiting development in...

The chemical industry is asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), now helmed by industry-friendly Donald Trump appointee Lee Zeldin, to hide chemical facilities at the highest risk of disaster and their safety records from public view. On...

French premier François Bayrou forced approval of his 2025 budget this week, using a special constitutional power known as Article 49.3 to adopt two financing packages without a vote by the lower house. Avoiding the...

On the same day Jeff Bezos sat in the front row of the inauguration (that Amazon helped finance), his retail giant sent nine letters pressing the Trump administration to let the company block votes on initiatives...