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Seven years ago, when Amazon was in the midst of a contentious pricing battle with one of the country’s largest publishers, a group of famou...

As members of the World Trade Organization meetFriday afternoon, countless residents of the United States, United Kingdom, theEuropean Uni...

Statehood for the District of Columbia has become a live issue in recent weeks. House Democrats recently passed, again, a bill that would ma...

Earlier this week, StreetsBlog New York reported on a community board meeting in a wealthy Manhattan neighborhood where members debated a no...

On April 5, Fox News debuted a weeknight show called Gutfeld! in the 11 o’clock hour, a slot that other networks reserve for the likes of Ji...

One afternoon in 1935, Milman Parry, a 33-year-old scholar whose research would revolutionize the study of Ancient Greek poetry, was unpacki...

The way that mainstream news outlets engage with Tucker Carlson has fallen into a predictable cycle. The host of Fox News’s flagship opinion...

One hundred days in, what do we know about Bidenism as it pertains to the climate crisis? Expectations started out fairly low: Few expected...

In a 1981 speech to the boards of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, President Ronald Reagan expressed one of the central ideas...

During his campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly held out the promise of an FDR-size presidency—the better to counter the misrule of the Trump admi...

Joe Biden’s presidency now has a lasting theme—one far more powerful than slogans like “Build Back Better” or all the variations on the “Ame...

Hey, remember Rudy Giuliani? The former mayor of New York City? The guy who spent the last two years acting as Donald Trump’s lawyer, first...

The cognitive dissonance is hard to manage. On the one hand, new Covid cases in the United States are declining as vaccinations rise. A vacc...

Halfway through Helen Oyeyemi’s new novel, Peaces, I put the book down and looked up instructions on how to play the board game baduk. I fou...

The American Families Plan is not utopian, but it could be understood as aspirational. According to reporting from Jeff Stein at The Washing...

Given the fact that we are in what we hope are the latter days of a global pandemic that arrived on these shores during a Democratic preside...

As if by magic, corporations were rendered human by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United and 2014 Hobby Lobby decisions. They may now ex...

For days, the American right has been on high alert: Joe Biden is coming for their meat. After the English tabloid The Daily Mail cited “rec...

John Kerry has lost Lenny Dykstra. The eccentric former all-star baseball player turned bankrupt investment advisor on Tuesday morning clai...

In 2005, I wrote a piece for The Nation surveying the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I concluded it on this cautionary note:We ha...

California Governor Gavin Newsom said last Friday his state will stop issuing new permits for fracking in 2024. The embattled governor—likel...

In recent years Apple has moved aggressively to brand itself as a privacy-friendly company that stands in contrast to competitors like Faceb...

On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a case challenging New York’s concealed-carry laws, setting up what could be the c...

Over the past few days, American conservatives have managed to wind themselves up into a full-blown meat panic. Let me try to recap.Toward t...