Opinions

The American carceral state is a machine of human rights abuses. .

The years-old joke goes that centrists fight the Left harder than they fight Donald Trump. .

The globalization hype of the early 2000s has given way to an intense focus on national borders and competition between states. .

Few have heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, but it has saved tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars.

In 1906, US troops slaughtered up to 1,000 Moros at Bud Dajo in the southern Philippines, then called it a battle. .

When The Battle of Algiers premiered at the Venice Film Festival, 60 years ago this month, the French delegation refused to attend. .

The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progress.

The Criterion Channel’s new Jonathan Demme retrospective is a chance to look beyond The Silence of the Lambs and rediscover one of America’s most adventurous, surprising, and charming filmmakers.

Runaway production isn’t just costing Hollywood jobs. .

Two University of California tech workers explain their unionization process — and how unions can help recapture the original promise of tech being used to better people’s lives rather than make the worst people in the world ever richer.

The left is increasingly winning within the Democratic party. But it still needs to prove that it can build general-election coalitions capable of beating Republicans.

We’re seeing America wake up to the tyranny that’s engulfed us.

US police have long recruited military veterans with conditions that make them prone to violence and aggression. .

While many leaders compare the wildfire crisis to the second world war, governments fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action.

From running red lights to dumping bikes, some Lime users get a bad rap. But many who grumble about them don’t appreciate their own privilege.

Hiring a convicted antisemite as an adviser; rabble rousing at a time of violent unrest. She is still in a race to the bottom and making too many mistakes.

It’s certainly increasing its output.

This happily married gen Xer celebrates the fact marriage rates are down. It shows Australians have the freedom and opportunity to make the best decisions for them.

Social media-fuelled riots and fractured politics make us feel more divided than ever, but is that so? Our study hopes to reveal what bring us together – and pushes us apart.

The time-honoured tradition of standing up with a drink, gossiping and putting the world to rights is under threat. If councillors ban it, we’ll all lose out.

As the harm caused by their products becomes more evident, manufacturers are resorting to denial and lawsuits to keep regulation at bay.

This really is the place to be a rapacious amoral gambling company!

My party has seen difficult times – but with a few canny moves the leader is finally cutting through, and there are clear signs of recovery.

People sometimes point to individual consumption to argue that the US is better off than Western Europe. .

The answer to union contracts being voted down is not for organizers to lower workers’ expectations. .

Before the votes had even been counted, some were treating last night’s Michigan result as a defeat for the Left. .

The Republican Party’s descent into chaos wasn’t Donald Trump’s doing. .

The candidate has crafted a progressive nationalism and shown his party how to turn Republicans’ financial advantage against them.

Much of the criticism of Ken Martin is deserved. But his actions are symptomatic of a party that fails to listen to the grassroots.

We tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. .

You were born on the wrong continent. .

The administration’s proposed agreement met a scathing response. But universities must remain vigilant.

The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training data.

Yanis Varoufakis has called Big Tech’s overweening power to shape the modern economy “technofeudalism.”

Centrist Democrats are writing off New York City socialist wins as a fluke reducible to gentrification and low turnout. .

US governments have long relied on Mexico as a southern gendarme, even as it proudly declares its sovereignty. .

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys .

New research confirms that policy messages on climate favored by college-educated liberals often fall flat with working-class Americans. .

The Democratic establishment’s hysteria over the Democratic Socialists of America’s organizing methods has it exactly backward: the Democratic Party has almost no ability to democratically organize voters, while DSA is reviving grassroots campaigning.

The Greeks learn at Troy that breaking the rules works, then carry the lesson home. Nolan’s film shows how an exception becomes a habit of power.

The longevity influencer and his girlfriend, Kate Tolo, say they’re studying women’s health – a worthy goal, but perhaps some skepticism is in order.

A New York school district has paused plans to bring an android into the classroom. Is this our educational future?

Trump’s conflict keeps escalating, with Saudi Arabia joining airstrikes in Iraq and reportedly planning an attack on the Houthis. A recession could follow.

Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools.

The conservative columnist Ross Douthat is the network’s latest perplexing hire – but the move is in line with the new leadership.

Gianni Infantino’s plan for a Fifa subsidiary is odious – but it’s hard to feel surprised.

Is it normal for a sitting senator to have to routinely submit proofs of life to a public who suspect he might be braindead? Just asking for 340 million friends .

The president is using forced labor as a pretext to slap tariffs on countries around the world.

Republicans have moved to dismantle a 60-year-old demographic reporting system. Now the agency wants to choose what it sees.

The party’s silence shows how broadly male supremacist thinking has seeped into the conventional wisdom of political strategists.

A new report shows more Senate-confirmed staffers have left their jobs this time around than in his first term.

Between the companies pushing junk food and the bacteria threatening our produce, eating right feels basically impossible.

Donald Trump may reject the negotiations, but he cannot veto a global effort to make multinational companies answer to governments.

A youth movement born from exam leaks and online mockery has pierced Narendra Modi’s aura of invincibility and may yet reshape Indian politics .

Thanks to new technology we are are acquiring insights into earlier times, and realising how little we truly know.

The row over the sacking of the popular defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, highlights questions about the country’s military and political direction.