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With the presidential election just two months away, all eyes are on Pennsylvania. Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s campaigns have each spent more than $130 million to advertise in the swing state, hoping to win...

We spoke with Uncommitted movement cofounder Abbas Alawieh about the movement’s accomplishments at the DNC, the potential disaster of a Trump presidency for Palestine, and Uncommitted’s vision to change the Democratic Party’s support for slaughter...

A new lawsuit pushed by conservative operatives with ties to Donald Trump, right-wing power broker Leonard Leo, and a hate group could make donations to dark money groups tax-deductible. Such an outcome could further incentivize the massive...

It’s been conventional wisdom that younger generations emerge more progressive than their predecessors. “The young people will save us,” has been a sentiment often shared by elders, albeit problematically, as they’ve watched new movements build...

Jordie van den Lamb The housing crisis boils down to housing being too expensive. Housing costs have skyrocketed, making it increasingly difficult for average Australians to secure stable, quality housing. To be clear, I don’t...

Following its landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential elections, the MORENA coalition is wasting no time in getting to work. Even before president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum takes office on October 1, the new Congress is taking up...

I have been thinking a lot about Ted Chiang’s piece on artificial intelligence (AI) in the New Yorker. His basic argument is that AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT that produce text...

It’s tempting to write off Bernie Sanders’s speeches and interviews as he campaigns for Kamala Harris this year as a “playing the hits” tour: The top 1 percent own lots of wealth. We have to...

Lily Lynch Vučić started his political career as a member of the Radical Party of Serbia, which was a far-right party, known during the 1990s as being very intimately connected to the state security forces....

It’s so good to have the old gang back again that it seems petty to carp about any aspect of this long-awaited Beetlejuice Beetlejuice reunion. Seventy-three-year-old Michael Keaton is still magnificent as the rampant undead...

When Quentin Tarantino chose the small eastern German town of Sebnitz for a scene in his Inglourious Basterds, he was likely drawn to its beautiful scenery, not to actual Nazis. Yet, along the road to...

Interview by Danny Katch The Republican Party is increasingly guided by white nationalist politics, which are in turn heavily influenced by long-standing conspiracy tropes involving hidden and powerful Jewish networks. Unfortunately, most of the public...