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Donald Trump is waging an authoritarian assault on neighborhoods across Chicago right now. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are violently snatching Chicagoans off our streets, engulfing our neighborhoods and schools with clouds of tear...

In a recent piece, Virgilio Urbina Lazardi argues that European countries have lower inequality than the United States because they distribute market income much more equally, not because of their welfare states. A paper published a...

Zohran Mamdani’s monumental victory in the New York City mayoral primary over former governor Andrew Cuomo was a rare bright spot for a beleaguered US left. But the fight is just beginning for Mamdani and...

After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, the nation’s largest private prison company is pushing the US Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like itself blanket immunity from such lawsuits and many...

The airline industry is contesting a new safety rule proposed by the Federal Aviation Administration that would force airlines to address serious flaws in potentially thousands of Boeing 737 planes — and they have powerful...

“When I opened the doors to this trial on 2 September,” Gisèle Pelicot said on the final day of France’s mass-rape trial in Avignon last year, “I wanted society to be able to take part...

Setting a tone of sweet quirkiness from the opening scene — complete with a Randy Newman–style clarinet-and-piano soundtrack — Roofman indicates right from the get-go that it’s offering nothing but pleasant comedy hijinks. The film...

Incomes in the United States are more unequal than in any other rich country. One common explanation for why is that America doesn’t do much redistribution: tax rates on the highest earners are at historical...

For years, across multiple presidential administrations, the US government has been pursuing aggressive lawsuits against the tech giants. The toothless sentence Google recently received for its illegal search monopoly suggests the effort is all for...

Charlotte Hill O’Neal is known by several names. In Northern Tanzania, where she has lived for decades, she is known as “Mama C” because her name is hard for locals to pronounce. She is also...

With President Donald Trump’s approval rating deep under water, and Americans’ views of his handling of the economy over 20 points more negative than they were on inauguration day, a naive observer of US politics...

France’s political crisis this past week has been equal parts absurd and electrifying. On October 5, President Emmanuel Macron’s latest prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, announced a roster of ministers largely identical to the one his...