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For twenty-six years, CBS’s Survivor has positioned itself as a grand experiment in traditional American meritocracy. Any individual who was smart, hardworking, and resilient enough could win the day. But in recent years, the game...

State lawmakers across the country have moved to shield residents from sky-high interest rates charged by out-of-state banks — in some cases as high as 199 percent on credit cards and loans. Now two Republican...

Since 1997, the Fallout video game franchise has imagined an alternate America in the shadow of nuclear annihilation. Players wander the Wasteland, trying to survive and piecing together how things went so horribly wrong. They...

Michael Locker First and foremost, you must center any campaign around social justice issues, not just demands. In other words, to gather meaningful support, both among the workers directly involved and the wider community indirectly...

The verdict is finally in. Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea’s impeached conservative president, was sentenced to life in prison on February 19 by a Seoul court for insurrection. The court’s decision came 443 days after Yoon’s...

National self-determination is no bad thing. After World War I, during which imperial powers such as Britain, France, and Germany squandered millions of lives for nothing, President Woodrow Wilson called for an end to the...

In the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election, Donald Trump cited political prediction markets (PPMs) as evidence that he would defeat Kamala Harris and return to the White House: “A gambling poll, as they...

A French far-right militant was pronounced dead on Saturday morning at a hospital in Lyon, succumbing to injuries inflicted during a street battle last Thursday with anti-fascist activists. Twenty-three-year-old Quentin Deranque was part of a...

Vivek Chibber On the surface, it might seem like, look, this is a dictatorial regime. There’s a movement that’s trying to overthrow it, and the US intervenes on its side. Isn’t that a good thing? The...

Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira never won a World Cup. He never reached a final, never lifted football’s most prestigious trophy, never secured the kind of immortality that usually defines greatness in...

Interview bySara Wexler In February 2024, New York University’s  (NYU) “contract faculty” — the non-tenure-track instructors who make up about half of the university’s full-time faculty — voted to form a union, Contract Faculty United–United...

At 3 a.m. on a summer morning in July 1970, a group of activists climbed into the back of a rented U-Haul truck believing they might not make it out alive. The action was led...