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Early last month, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 2 issued a complaint against the Audubon Society, a lovable nonprofit organization focused on the protection of birds. The complaint alleges that the Audubon Society repeatedly failed...

Another week, another ridiculous, ginned-up controversy aimed at the US Congress’s sole Palestinian American member. Over the weekend, a clearly coordinated smear campaign got rolling against Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), centered on comments she had...

Throughout Donald Trump’s 2016–20 presidential term, migrant justice was a centerpiece of liberal and left opposition to the Republican agenda. The public reacted with genuine horror to the Trump administration’s spectacles of racist, anti-migrant cruelty....

Israel has unleashed hell in Lebanon. On Monday, waves of Israeli air strikes that by Tuesday morning had killed 558 people in southern and eastern Lebanon, including women and children, while displacing thousands others who fled north...

Maria Chiara Franceschelli After harsh police repression during the first weeks after the full-scale invasion, protests shifted from mass street demonstrations to more dispersed and individual action. From a social-movement theory perspective, what we see...

A bright, showy, didactic, and generally well-reviewed body horror film about women, aging, and the hypersexualization of the female body, The Substance is the second feature from French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat (Revenge), who’s riding a...

A few years ago, I was staying at a motel in Arlington, Virginia, beside the Robert E. Lee highway, one of the principal roads leading into our nation’s capital. The motel had government approval to...

Alasdair MacIntyre is that rarest of intellectuals: an author of such obvious intelligence and depth that his insights have been claimed by figures across the political spectrum. This includes many important intellectuals on the political...

“We’ve got ourselves a little monster out there,” anchorman Jim Cantore warned, facing the camera in the Weather Channel’s newsroom on a sultry August weekend in 1992. At first, few in Florida were paying attention. “It’s...

Review of Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation by Tom McGrath (Grand Central Publishing, 2024) Last year, more graduates of my alma mater, Georgetown University, reportedly went...

During the recent presidential debate, Kamala Harris once again described the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 as Donald Trump’s plan for a second term. Trump himself has repeatedly thrown the think tank and its plan under...

If last month’s Democratic National Convention was any indication, climate action has all but vanished from the Democratic Party platform. Presidential nominee Kamala Harris only glancingly referenced climate change, and out of the twenty-one hours...