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For more than a century, the modern Olympic Games have elevated the world’s top athletes in service of peace, diversity, and shared dignity. But the Milan Cortina Winter Games are also highlighting a less celebrated...

The Reverend Jesse Jackson passed away this week at the age of eighty-four years old. A national figure and leader in civil rights, international diplomacy, and the Democratic Party, he occupied a space few could...

The Justice Department’s top antitrust cop has been ousted amid reports of growing corporate influence over the office and alleged internal divisions over whether to crack down on corporate crimes. The move jeopardizes the future of...

In August 2022, workers at a Chipotle in Lansing, Michigan, voted 11-3 to unionize, becoming the first and only employees at the chain to ever win union recognition. Three years later, they still don’t have...

One of the most famous photographs of Martin Luther King Jr shows him standing on the balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, with three of his top aides — Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams,...

Conservatives have often accused socialism of being a materialistic and spiritless philosophy. The most popular version of the charge is that socialists focus on making a happier world for all because they can’t imagine anything...

Some in the Trump administration may now regret calling Renée Good and Alex Pretti “domestic terrorists.” The hasty application of this label by Kristi Noem, J. D. Vance, and other hard-liners generated justifiable outrage and...

In 2021, Academy Award–winning director Alex Gibney and I published a desperate plea. In a Rolling Stone essay, we implored Democrats then in power to heed Franklin D. Roosevelt’s (FDR) long-forgotten warning about the link between economic...

A former compliance officer for the international financial powerhouse Deutsche Bank told the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) she was fired in 2018 after raising concerns about suspicious banking activity from accounts owned by financier...

Josh Wallack I think when people talk about universal childcare, what they mean can vary on a few different dimensions.First, how is it provided? Is it provided through a market-based intervention like a tax credit...

Kaouther Ben Hania Because, first of all for me, it wasn’t respectful of the memory of this little girl to do the mise-en-scène. We are in a very touchy place, and this question of filming...

Halfway through his acclaimed novel Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico inserts a particularly revealing episode. It is 2015 and Anna and Tom are both graphic designers, working in one of Berlin’s trendiest neighborhoods. Their comfortable life is...