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by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Healthcare
It’s single-payer healthcare. Period. Read the article ›
by Will McCaffery Politics
In both countries, the debate is about how—not whether—to conduct imperial violence. Read the article ›
by Nathan J. Robinson Politics
Whether a candidate can inspire people, organize them, and deliver for them matters more than where they stand on an imaginary ideological continuum. Read the article ›
There is no such thing as a red state. The toxic Republican Party can be defeated everywhere. But Democrats have to show they can deliver. If they squander this moment, it will be short-lived.
In an age of surveillance and hyper-connectivity, a secretive subculture still finds freedom in the open road.
From Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang to the “ecotage” novels of today, literature helps us grapple with the enormity of the planet’s crisis—and how far we’d go to solve it.
The host of “Secular Talk” previews his next Current Affairs article...
I grew up under apartheid. Musk and his father Errol, technologists and race fanatics, transmit its warped perspectives to the world.
Florida’s politics have been misunderstood. Democrats have failed to compete there because they haven’t offered voters inspiring candidacies, not because it’s a “red” state.
Jefferson Davis is the only traitor with a “presidential library”—and you paid for it. My visit to America's most appalling tourist attraction...
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The NYC mayor is trying to build a city that functions like a city in a children's picture book, where people aren’t caught in a web of lies and scams.
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