As usual, US states redrew their congressional district maps after the 2020 census. Due to a series of Supreme Court rulings in the 1960s, congressional and state legislative districts are required to contain an equal...
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On a blistering day in May 2008, seventeen-year-old farmworker María Isabel Vásquez Jiménez was tying grapevines in a vineyard outside Stockton, California, when the temperature crept past 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was only her second...
“As Maine goes, so goes the nation” is an old adage that describes the nearly one-hundred-year streak of Maine politics as the bellwether of presidential elections. Between 1820 and 1958, elections were held in September...
The Devil Wears Prada 2 strutted to the top of the box office in the first days of its theatrical run — a surprise to no one who saw the first Devil Wears Prada twenty years...
The Trump administration has quietly hired a team of scandal-plagued private debt collectors to hound immigrants slapped with new multimillion-dollar civil penalties for not leaving the country, according to documents reviewed by the Lever. All of the companies previously worked...
On April 10, moments before a ceasefire was announced, Donald Trump was making unhinged threats of civilizational genocide against Iran if that country’s regime didn’t immediately open the Strait of Hormuz. Two days later, Trump...
Michael, the new biopic of “King of Pop” Michael Jackson, has gotten scathing reviews, which it deserves. Nevertheless, it’s a huge hit. This figures, in part because critics are more and more aware of the...
Donald Trump’s return to power has brought chaos and real harm to millions of people. It’s no surprise that much of the opposition to his administration has been defensive, trying to block the worst abuses...
The opposition’s monumental victory in Hungary has swept away the petty despotism that strangled the country’s dreams for over a decade and upended the myth of the far right’s inevitable momentum. The government to be...
On the first day of the general strike, the response in East London was strong. Almost all workers at the docks along the River Thames were on strike, as well as hundreds of thousands more...
At a moment when the American media landscape is consolidating at the top and fragmenting at the edges, a new documentary spotlights one of the most durable experiments in independent journalism in the United States....
Silicosis is a lethal workplace illness that killed thousands each year up through the 1960s. In recent decades, thanks to union workplace safety fights, it became much rarer. Annual deaths dropped to the hundreds. The...
