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A post-industrial New Jersey city welcomes Dr. Jill Biden — and wants a living wage

Historic Burlington City imagines a better future — but it won't get there without investment and fair wages

Big Tech is fueling an AI «arms race»: It could be terrifying — or just a giant scam

A commission loaded with Big Tech executives wants the Pentagon to spend billions in tax dollars on AI weaponry

Mercers, Peter Thiel drop millions to back “Hillbilly Elegy” author's possible Senate run

Billionaires who bankrolled Trump donate more than $10 million to super PAC supporting J.D. Vance's Ohio campaign

«Persona» argues convincingly that it's time to cancel personality tests

«Persona» explores the dark history of personality tests like Myers-Briggs — and how they're used to oppress

MAGA, the Proud Boys and the police: Biden's DOJ must drain Trump's swamp ƒ

Attorney General Merrick Garland is taking seriously the threat from the Proud Boys — and the police

Joe Biden is boring — and it's driving the media crazy

Yes, Biden is boring. It is why he is just what the country needs to restore some sense into politics

Legendary social scientist Robert Putnam: We may be on the cusp of a new Progressive era

Biden is consciously linking himself to FDR and LBJ — but Putnam says the real lessons are even deeper in history

MAGA, the Proud Boys and the police: Biden's DOJ must drain Trump's swamp

Attorney General Merrick Garland is taking seriously the threat from the Proud Boys — and the police

10 big problems with Joe Biden's foreign policy — and one solution

So far Biden is following the worst foreign policy impulses of both Trump and Obama. There's still time to change

Bandaging the corpse: Biden's big bailout can't pull America out of its death spiral

The American Rescue Plan is a desperate effort to address the multiple crises destroying America. It won't work

Julia Turshen unites healthy and comfort in the kitchen: Delicious «does not have to be complicated»

Turshen's new healthy cookbook celebrates comfort food and has nothing to do with weight loss — it's a revolution

Cult recovery experts explain how to «deprogram» QAnon adherents

QAnon followers often want to feel connected to something «greater than themselves,» one therapist says

When to toss Sriracha and what to do with tahini: «Saucy» answers your burning condiment questions

Plus, the versatility of XO sauce and the etiquette of a new couple sharing a condiment drawer

“The Real World Homecoming: New York” is a beautiful suspension bridge between past and present

Almost three decades after «The Real World» introduced seven strangers to each other they've returned to heal us

A new book asks whether capitalism is compatible with public health. (The answer is no)

Dr. Nicholas Freudenberg says capitalism isn't designed to keep our societies healthy

Joy Reid's truth-telling: The hidden wages of white supremacy and the N-word

MSNBC host claimed right-wingers would sacrifice for «freedom» to use the N-word. Thing is, they don't have to

For many royal watchers, allegations of racism have shaken their faith in the Anglophilic fairy tale

"All this fallout is like being told Santa isn’t real,” one fan of the British royal family told Salon

Why professional wrestlers are more likely to die young

Pro wrestlers from the 1980s and 1990s are dying young — and there's a medical reason why

The world’s oldest impact crater may not actually be a crater

Is this 3 billion year old impact crater in Greenland just an illusion? Some researchers think so

A short history of the filibuster: Rarely a tool for good — and never a tool of democracy

The filibuster is not some sacred institution and isn't in the Constitution — it's a dumb, anti-democratic mistake

I'm sick of being stuck in the house. But am I ready to go back into the world?

We can see the beginning of the end of the pandemic, and yet the future feels uncertain

Italian-Americans and the language of food: How calamari became galamar and ricotta became rigott

I'm half-Italian, but I didn’t grow up speaking a lick of the mellifluous tongue

«Last Chance U» basketball coach on DeShaun, Joe and the «hard as hell» grind of junior college ball

«For a lot the kids we’re dealing with, this is their second and last chance. Everyone has given up on them»

The true story of Michel Foucault's LSD trip that changed history

The French philosopher burned and rewrote much of «The History of Sexuality» as a result of his acid revelations

Steven Van Zandt talks paying dues on the Jersey Shore and playing with Paul McCartney

On this episode of «Everything Fab Four,» host Ken Womack interviews the iconic guitarist and TV star

Military might, market ideology and moral posturing: A toxic combination that has poisoned America

The domestic war on «entitlements» and our endless wars overseas are connected — and they're destroying America

The subversive joys of Joan Micklin Silver's little-known New York City short films

Watch «The Fur Coat Club» and «The Case of the Elevator Duck,» classroom gems Silver made before hitting Hollywood

The pandemic is making birds more musical

City birds have changed their routines as a result of lockdowns, researchers find

Time to see Trump as a normal politician: grubby, grasping, corrupt and banal

Donald Trump isn't really a Republican. He’s a cheap crook — which, come to think of it, is the same thing

Rep. Paul Gosar’s siblings say he's a white supremacist — but his GOP colleagues stay silent

Gosar’s siblings push for his ouster from Congress after inciting Capitol riot, speaking at white nationalist event

Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now

Shows and movies about organized crime are becoming cultural calling cards for the online left. Here’s why

Sharon Osbourne's meltdown defense of Piers Morgan was a live lesson in misogynoir

The British rock mom weaponized her privilege to force her co-hosts into a position where they had to placate her

Astronomers hope to use a quasar as a «flashlight» to see into the universe's dark past

The powerful radio jets of a distant quasar can show us the universe as it existed 13 billion years ago

Questions for Joe Biden: There's still so much we don't know

White House reporters are almost certain to screw up Biden's first press conference. Here's how they can fix that

Republicans are trying to sabotage Biden's COVID vaccine plan to «own the libs.» We must ditch them

If Republicans won't get vaccinated, it may be time to forge ahead with returning to normal without them

Biden's big COVID bill proves a lot of his critics wrong

How Joe Biden could end up being the most transformative president since FDR

How many GOP House members are mired in conflicts of interest? No one knows

Many House members (especially Republicans) make millions on the side — and vote their businesses big breaks

After opposing wildly popular stimulus package, GOP hopes to gnaw away at public support

Republicans flee in all directions: They'll take credit for parts of the package, while claiming it's useless

What Chris Wray didn't say: Unpacking the FBI chief's wobbly Capitol riot testimony

FBI director left many questions unanswered and spun multiple stories — but at least he didn't indulge the wackos
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