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Donald Trump added a strange sentence into his pre-Christmas announcement of Ken Howery as US ambassador to Denmark. Alongside other recent comments about taking over the Panama Canal and welcoming Canada as his country’s fifty-first...

In a surprise move, President Joe Biden announced yesterday that his administration will remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List. In addition, Biden suspended Title III, a controversial law that had stifled foreign...

Google has its tentacles full these days. While pouring a sea of money into developing so-called generative AI, the company is up against two major antitrust cases brought by the federal government and a number...

Vivek Chibber Yes, and she didn’t take the bait. So that observation is true, that she didn’t run on it. Nevertheless, it is also true that identity politics played a big role — although not...

If you live in the United States, you’ve likely seen drug commercials like this one: “If you’re living with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis or active psoriatic arthritis, symptoms can sometimes hold you back,” a...

President Emmanuel Macron picked François Bayrou as France’s new prime minister earlier this month, despite his lack of any parliamentary majority. Bayrou’s appointment on December 13 came just over a week after his predecessor Michel...

Ten years ago today, just before reaching his sixty-second birthday, Mike Marqusee died after a long struggle with cancer. Marqusee, who was born in the United States but made his home in London, was one...

Back in 2019, a California state climate task force issued a stark warning: endless development in the state’s high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying wildfires and putting more people in their path. It was a call...

In 1954, Abner Green, executive secretary of the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB), was sentenced by a New York State grand jury to serve six months in a federal prison. His...

Remember that spooky campfire tale that opens John Carpenter’s The Fog? It’s an old-fashioned yarn about a wrecked ship deliberately sacrificed to the sea with the crew all returning to the shore as vengeful ghouls...

It’s a complicated time to be a certain kind of conservative in Canada. For years, many Canadian right wingers have considered themselves supporters of Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans. Ontario premier Doug Ford even referred...

December saw a number of important developments at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The month started well for unions but ended badly. Some observers complained of whiplash! On December 10, the five-member board, still...