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Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?
Progressive activists can learn important lessons from a successful grassroots campaign against transit racism.
How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.
Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?
Egypt’s reconciliation process has been lauded as restoring confidence to outside investors. But others say it amounts to impunity for the rich.
In a sane society, his call would be required viewing coast to coast and urgent action would immediately follow.
The most radical thing a person can be is herself—without apology or explanation.
The Republicans’ new push to win over women voters is just as craven as you think it is.
The former Black Panther has become the first woman placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list and reminds us that the struggle for freedom is far from over.
How else would we be safe?
But will weak protections against human rights abuses undermine the treaty’s intent?
The athlete-activist icon has nothing but support.
Penny Pritzker's nomination shows how financiers keep being rewarded even as the country suffers the financial crisis they wrought.
Our twenty-first-century, American-dictated, unipolar moment is a planetary time bomb.
The same chemical that exploded in West, Texas, is used by coal companies to blow up mountains.
Lobbyists are taking up top government positions—but not without receiving large bonus payments from their former firms to see them on their way.
“Behind every fortune lies a crime,” said Balzac—allegedly true for the fortune inherited by Penny Pritzker. Though nowadays, as the finances of Obama's Commerce pick show, the crime is how much is not illegal at all.
On May 4, an open meeting between the Swarthmore Board of Managers and a coalition of student activist groups on fossil fuel divestment was transformed into an unusual general assembly, addressing a wide range of student concerns.
When Washington’s superstar quarterback visited the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, every tweet was a chapter.
Repression after 9/11 is nothing compared to what's come before, and our tools to fight it are greater.
Activists are opposing the construction of a pipeline beneath New York City that will carry the controversial highly pressurized gas.
A senior member of Congress pushes retailers and brands to make “the moral choice” to address condition that produce predictable tragedy.
Beware rocks that Republicans will be looking under at the confirmation hearings for President Obama’s Commerce Secretary-designee.
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