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On December 5, Netflix announced an $82.7 billion merger agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery, the media behemoth that owns everything from CNN and HBO Max to the Harry Potter films and Hanna-Barbera cartoons. The deal...

Aber Kawas It started when Zohran and I met for coffee after volunteering on Pastor El-Yateem’s race. We had an amazing conversation about Zohran starting a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at his university,...

President Donald Trump recently announced on Truth Social that the airspace “above and around Venezuela” was now closed in its entirety. The declaration was legally puzzling, as a US president cannot unilaterally shut down the airspace of...

In April 1912, Walter Lippmann was feeling down. Four months earlier, he had taken what seemed to him like an exciting postcollegiate political gig: assistant to George Lunn, the newly elected Socialist mayor of Schenectady,...

Donald Trump’s attacks on working people — threats to send troops into major US cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional — have...

Vivek Chibber That’s right. Now, without getting too deep into the weeds, let me just make this argument here. In feudalism, you had plenty of money going around. In feudalism, you had plenty of markets...

On December 4, the courthouse in Lesbos, Greece, began examining a smuggling case. On trial were twenty-four aid workers charged in connection with their work in 2016 and 2018 with Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI),...

Perhaps no one spends more time on Starbucks workers’ picket lines and helps turn away more Starbucks deliveries than Lenny Lamkin. The seventy-three-year-old retired government worker has been a force of nature during the strike...

Ahead of states’ 2026 legislative sessions, Google paid state lawmakers upwards of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions extolling the benefits of artificial intelligence among other...

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win in New York forced many political observers to think, for the first time, of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as a serious and potentially formidable force in American political life. For...

Canal+ S.A., a sprawling media and entertainment company controlled by French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, has launched a major expansion in the African market. In late September, Canal+ finalized the acquisition of South African company MultiChoice,...

Last Friday afternoon, Netflix announced they had delivered the winning bid for the 102-year-old studio, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Comcast and Paramount Skydance were both in the mix, with the latter now attempting a hostile...