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As tech companies roll out self-driving cars in ever more locales, the federal agency deciding on the future of autonomous vehicles on the nation’s highways has a new top cop: a Silicon Valley attorney who reportedly worked on Apple’s top-secret self-driving car project, but who refuses to confirm or deny the allegations to the public.

Democrats are not just losing arguments; they are often losing the room.

The first time I spoke with survivors of the Darién Gap, I was in jail in Mexico.

At the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) annual board of governors meeting, the New York Times’ Tania Ganguli asked the NBA’s commissioner, Adam Silver, about the rising costs of fandom.

Argentine president Javier Milei had a lot to celebrate during his recent visit to Washington, DC. While Americans deal with an ongoing government shutdown, mass federal firings, and looming safety net cuts that could plunge millions into poverty, the Trump administration pledged $20 billion to bail out Argentina’s flailing economy.

During the recent US government shutdown, President Donald Trump announced a $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Describing the state of the world today, it’s gotten harder to avoid clichés.

In April 1947, the architect Percival Goodman and his brother, the social critic Paul Goodman, published what would become a classic in urban planning: Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life.

France’s prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, hung on to power last Thursday after a no-confidence motion against his government failed by just eighteen votes.

In his firsthand account of the 1949 Peekskill Riot, the two-day frenzy of state-sanctioned mob violence against a left-wing music festival headlined by Paul Robeson, writer Howard Fast mostly describes his disbelief.

“God-sent madness is a finer thing than man-made sanity.”

In Capitalists Must Starve — a novel by Park Seolyeon, translated from Korean by Anton Hur — a labor activist climbs to the rooftop of a rubber factory in Pyongyang, Korea, using a makeshift rope fashioned out of twisted Japanese cotton, staging a solo protest against unfair wages under Japanese colonial rule.

Jacobin spoke with Rob Ashton, a candidate for the leadership of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP), about where the party — and the country’s politics more broadly — have gone wrong, and what he plans to do about it.

When Twitter started, its most obvious characteristic was its brevity.

What does it look like when the Right attempts to articulate its own version of a “pro-worker” program? That is the question driving the American Compass think tank.

Ofer Cassif stands almost alone inside the Israeli Knesset.

Volkswagen has dug in its heels in first contract negotiations at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where workers won a landslide victory in last year’s union drive.

Earlier this month, Andrew G. Biggs, Arthur J. Gonzalez, and Betty A. Rosa, three members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), returned to their posts after a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump likely violated the law when he abruptly dismissed six FOMB members in early August.

“It’s been a very productive week,” said EU official Ignacio García Bercero in July 2013, after the first round of negotiations between the United States and the European Union over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). At the time, the deal was supposed to be the largest bilateral trade agreement in history.