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Scroll through the New York Times’ Instagram Reels and a new editorial strategy is immediately evident. Amid breaking news and investigative reporting are celebrities cooking in the Times’ kitchen, giving culture recommendations to the camera,...

A pro-Israel group is preparing a nearly half-million-dollar ad blitz in a contentious California congressional primary race to boost a candidate who recently walked back from calling the Gaza war a genocide. The ad spend comes just days...

Extreme weather events are ever more exposing the unsustainability of today’s anarchic global capitalism. When disasters strike, they unfailingly follow deep-seated fault lines in society: which is to say, lines of class. Such is the...

Ken Burns, a two-time Oscar nominee and five-time Emmy winner, is arguably America’s greatest documentarian. And with his new six-part, twelve-hour series, The American Revolution — codirected with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and written by...

Conjure in your mind’s eye the most grating, cynically obnoxious forms of claiming oppression and wielding supposed traumas in service of winning an argument that you can recall from the last few years. Are you...

Last December, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner was interviewed on the socialist podcast Left Reckoning. The hosts asked him about his approach to voters who are swayed by Trumpian demagoguery and played a clip from...

The Strokes broke through in the early 2000s with crisp-toned vintage guitars and an unapologetic croon from their lead singer. It was to be a decade marked by a return of sounds from the past.Despite...

With his presidential library, former President Barack Obama is unveiling an oligarch-funded shrine to himself amid everyone in America being fleeced by oligarchs. It’s a perfect bookend of a presidency that bailed out its Wall Street donors who were throwing millions...

Con men are irritating for a lot of reasons. One of the biggest is how little respect they have for their marks. The very human response to most confidence pitches is some version of, “You...

WEST BENGAL, India – As campaign rallies, television theatrics, and symbolic culture-war politics dominated headlines in India’s West Bengal election, millions of voters were dealing with a less visible crisis: their names missing from the...

Climate policy has long been framed as a trade-off between protecting the environment and protecting jobs. At a moment when affordability and the cost of living have become major political issues, this raises new challenges...

Last summer, Giorgia Meloni’s Italian government approved a so-called “anti-Gandhi law,” which criminalizes even nonviolent protests and passive resistance. The highly controversial “Security Decree” was recently followed by a further one, introducing measures such as...