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For many Australians, there is nothing that epitomizes high summer more than the doof (for those unacquainted with the local dialect, doofs are outdoor dance parties similar to raves). Although pioneering parties like Rainbow Serpent and Earthcore are no longer running, festivals like Esoteric, Wild Horses and Rabbits Eat Lettuce have stepped into the breach, […]

Does the public have a right to know who exactly is paying to lobby judges to deliver favorable rulings? A committee in charge of federal judiciary rules recently said yes, but some of the most powerful corporate and conservative forces in Washington are now saying hell no — and trying to keep the information secret.

The yacht is moored at the mouth of the Miami River, in the long shadows of the city’s luxury hotels and high-rises.

In the first half of the twentieth century, Cuba was the biggest producer of sugar in the world, and sugar represented 80 percent of the country’s exports.

Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was one of the most visible leaders of the student protests last year against Israel’s atrocities in Gaza.

While the world’s eyes are set on the dismantling of the Euro-Atlantic alliance, Bulgaria seems set to finalize its accession to the eurozone amid an atmosphere of peak anti-politics.

Mahmoud Khalil is a law-abiding permanent resident of the US, but the Trump administration is prosecuting him for his political opinions using a law that was originally aimed at Communists.

Top Democratic officials spent the better part of the last decade warning that Donald Trump must not become president, because he would become a dictator, act like a dangerous authoritarian, and be Adolf Hitler reincarnate.

In a memo that that one TSA employee said sounded like “a teenage blogger writing about someone they don’t like,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced March 7 that it was canceling the union contract for 47,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) signed its contract […]

In an America where health care costs bankrupt families, where housing costs consume half of many workers’ incomes, and where politicians disingenuously maintain that paid family leave is beyond our capacity as the wealthiest nation in world history, we clearly need a more ambitious policy vision.

Nobody could be sadder than I am to report that Mickey 17 is a disappointment.

On February 1, the White House issued a Fact Sheet justifying President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, its three largest trading partners, by citing the “extraordinary threat” posed by illegal immigration and drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl.

Twentieth-century Spain could boast of world-leading artists from Salvador Dalí to Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.

On the evening of January 19, 2025, the American Hindu Coalition — a pro–Donald Trump group whose stated mission is to “build a stronger America through Hindu Enlightenment Principles” — joined forces with several right-wing Latino organizations to host a joint Hindu-Latino inaugural ball in downtown Washington, DC. Among those who gathered in the ballroom […]

For several years, the basic dynamic of Canada’s 2025 federal election has seemed all but inevitable.

If we choose to take seriously the overwhelming consensus position of credible climate scientists, we have to accept that climate change represents a truly existential threat to the continuation of life on Earth as we know it.

There is nothing more dangerous to the dominant status quo than solidarity.

Early in his preelection talkathon on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Donald Trump blithely suggested that even he couldn’t pinpoint just why exactly he got so much publicity during his first campaign.

The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in the last twenty-seven years, according to official figures.

Last Sunday, a rally led by President Claudia Sheinbaum filled Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo.