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As political battles loom over whether to crack down on Wall Street’s tax breaks and predatory behavior, the wealthiest members of Congress from both parties — including Republican vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance —...

The Palestinian Nakba produced, alongside death and displacement, a generation of writers who came of age in its aftermath. The moment seemed to demand a funereal tone from artists who had witnessed the tragedy. For...

In the years before Hurricane Helene ravaged North Carolina last week, the state’s Republican lawmakers and corporate interests continually fought climate adaptation and mitigation measures that could have helped communities withstand the storm’s tidal surge,...

“I am not free today because the system worked,” Julian Assange told an assembled group of parliamentarians from across Europe earlier this week. “I am free today because after years of incarceration I pled guilty...

Australia’s two major parties — the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the Liberal-led Coalition — are steadily declining in popularity, mirroring similar trends around the world. Both are largely very happy with Australia the way it...

The Impact Plastics factory in rural Erwin, Tennessee, is located just a few hundred feet from the Nolichucky River. The company, founded in 1987, manufactures plastic injection molded components for original equipment manufacturers at the...

Review of 10/7: 100 Human Stories by Lee Yaron, with an afterword by Joshua Cohen (St Martin’s Press, 2024) One year after the October 7 attacks on Israel, hasbara, the Hebrew word for Zionist propaganda...

Marine Le Pen has often posed as the sole voice of the ignored French people — and the enemy of the political establishment of “either left or right.” Yet if mainstream media often lazily label...

There were a few jarring moments in last night’s vice presidential debate. At one point, Tim Walz said he’d “become friends with school shooters.” Presumably, he meant to say that he’d befriended survivors of school...

The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), a labor union of 30,000 members, is moving swiftly — and forcefully — to condemn Israel’s mounting attacks on Lebanon. Last week, the union’s elected officers issued a statement urging...

One of the big questions in US politics over the past few months has been why Kamala Harris has so much difficulty talking about the policies she herself has adopted and decided to run on....

On September 10, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its ruling in the biggest antitrust case in history. Eight years after the European Commission found that Ireland had given illegal tax advantages to Apple,...