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I like Sam Raimi’s verve as a genre movie director. He demonstrates it in Send Help with the same enthusiasm for wild action and racing camera shots and gross jump scares and hilarious close-ups of...

In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal immigration agents’ aggressive invasion. Their experience may soon be relevant to cities elsewhere in the US facing...

On Monday morning, with temperatures below freezing, New York City nurses began the fourth week of the largest nursing strike in the city’s history, which has seen some fifteen thousand nurses across multiple Montefiore, Mount...

The state of Michigan filed a lawsuit in federal court last week against major oil companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron, accusing them of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the development of clean energy...

It was always a pipe dream to expect that ramped-up defense spending would not eat into other budgetary items. It was always clear that more bombs would mean less hospital beds and would permanently embed...

Abdul El-Sayed I was in medical school when the ACA passed, and I was so grateful that we had an American president that was willing to jump on this issue. But as it got negotiated,...

Robin Wonsley MAGA has always made it very clear what it intended to do under Project 2025. And MAGA leaders have bombarded the general populace with several issues to try to drive wedges and divide...

Amid aggressive bank lobbying and President Donald Trump’s deregulatory efforts, one of the core financial products that led to millions of foreclosures during the Great Recession is being quietly readied for a comeback — even...

Last week marked the fifty-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision enshrining the absurd idea that money in politics is not corruption, but constitutionally protected speech. As the Lever unearthed in our recent audio...

For months, tenants in dozens of rent-stabilized buildings owned by Pinnacle Group tried to do something New York housing law almost never permits: stop their landlord from selling their homes to another speculative owner. They...

It may come as a surprise that a substantial portion of America’s economy is worker- and union-owned — technically. Private sector and public sector union members’ pension funds collectively manage roughly $8 trillion in worker savings. That’s nearly 15...

Diana Moreno, were she to emerge victorious tomorrow, would have perhaps the largest shoes to fill of any first-term state legislator in New York State history. Assembly District 36 in Queens, which spans the neighborhoods...