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SAG-AFTRA agreement addresses key issues, but future struggles await the entertainment industry. 

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In New Jersey, liberal and conservative forces poured resources into the charter school movement. This effort helps explain the woes of the public school system in the country.

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Reliance on US aid gives the Biden administration leverage to push for a cease-fire, hostage exchange, and an end to the slaughter of civilians—if it can find the political will.

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As the Death Toll Rises in Gaza, AIPAC Lobbies for War As the Death Toll Rises in Gaza, AIPAC Lobbies for War

Political interests in Washington are vying for influence when it comes to US policy in the Middle East—no matter how out of step they are with public opinion.

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They Helped to Get Biden Elected. Now They’re Demanding That He Back a Cease-Fire. They Helped to Get Biden Elected. Now They’re Demanding That He Back a Cease-Fire.

The president cannot afford to lose the generation of young political activists who are telling him he is flat wrong when it comes to Gaza.

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Politics

Joe Manchin surrounded by reporters in the Capitol building.

Joe Manchin, Jeff Weaver, and Jill Stein Walk Into a Bar… Joe Manchin, Jeff Weaver, and Jill Stein Walk Into a Bar…

Actually, it’s no joke. All three just showed they’re opportunists more interested in themselves than the country’s perilous future.

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The First Amendment doesn’t permit us to punish political expression in America.

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US President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the Community Building Complex of Boone County in Belvidere, Illinois, US, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023.

Forget the Polls—Here’s What Actual Election Results Can Tell Us About 2024 Forget the Polls—Here’s What Actual Election Results Can Tell Us About 2024

There are far more insights to be found in this week’s elections than in theoretical surveys about a vote that won’t happen for a year.

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Books & the Arts

Idi Amin in Kampala, 1975.

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In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.

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Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel

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Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.

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Capitalism’s Toxic Nature

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A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nat…

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Unmarried to the Mob

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After the ex-wife of a Trump Organization insider talked to prosecutors, she lost her children and her home. But she’s still fighting.

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Hand in Hand: Protesters Come Together in Support of Palestine

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Photographer Hannah La Follette Ryan documented the many hands of protesters demonstrating across New York City in support of Palestine.

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For decades, Americans have argued over the icon’s legacy. But his archives show that he had his own plans.

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