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On this day four years ago, a week after the MAGA brigades stormed the Capitol, Donald Trump’s outgoing administration put Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list. The move irked former and current...

The issue of biological determinism is not an abstract matter to be debated within academic cloisters. These ideas have important consequences. . . . The most immediate impact will be felt as male privilege girds...

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) has settled its East and Gulf Coast contract shortly before a January 15 strike deadline. The deal locks in a 62 percent wage increase over six years and expands existing...

Despite constant handwringing from the national punditry about the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) ratings, a post-Christmas bump has left the league at an only marginal deficit to its previous season. True, the ratings have plummeted...

Retrospectives on Jean-Marie Le Pen highlight his most infamous racist and antisemitic statements but almost uniformly overlook a key dimension of his politics: anti-communism. Yet this has long been a decisive focus for the far...

I keep rewatching a video of a McDonald’s in flames in Los Angeles. Blazing palm trees are buffeted by extreme winds. Sparks fly from the golden arches. It feels like an image out of Mike...

How much is your privacy worth? More than $20, perhaps? One might think that’s a pretty low ballpark figure. After all, many would expect privacy to be priceless — something not for sale at any...

Interview by Tom Smith Last month, 461 video game workers with Microsoft’s ZeniMax Online Studios announced they were unionizing with the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees–Communications Workers of America (CODE-CWA). ZeniMax employees join over six...

Of all the emotions I thought Alan Dershowitz’s The Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies would generate, the last I expected was sympathy for Donald Trump. Not once have I pitied the two-time president. But after reading...

Pro-Israel triumphalists are celebrating a trifecta: in the course of a little over a year, Israel has felled or significantly set back its three most troublesome enemies: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Another enemy, Iran,...

Fossil fuel companies are profiting off an obscure state tax break depriving California of up to $146 million of annual tax revenue that could be used to combat climate-change-fueled wildfires, according to a new report...

Private equity may soon be coming for your hard-earned retirement plan — thanks in part to President Joe Biden’s failure to stop the industry’s decades-long push to infiltrate retirement savings and the Trump administration’s presumed support of...