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The Central Washington city’s expensive dispute with a Seattle-based builder illustrates the challenges of crafting long-term development agreements.

In 1872 California enacted a law declaring that “every one who offers to the public to carry persons, property, or messages, excepting only telegraphic messages, is a common carrier of whatever he …

A mirror returns exactly what stands before it. No amount of wealth can bribe it, no volume of threats can intimidate it, no technological innovation can reprogram it. A billionaire’s reflect…

The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.

This fantastic two-minute video, from a guy named Rich, neatly explains why the anger and frustration of Trump’s supporters has been growing over time — why the pushback on things like diversity, equity, inclusion, trans rights, and LGBTQ+ issues

How many crypto grifters does it take to screw up the machinery of state?

It’s time for Canada to push back hard against Trump. Here’s how.

Disney Plus’ new Spider-Man series is a solid exploration of what it means to be a street-level hero.

The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.

The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.

“I was really horrified the first time someone said I should just make something up for them to approve,” one author raves.

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on. – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale In some

Well, Here in America, we're unfortunately going through a coup right now where the worst people in the world are voiding the Constitution to dismantle the...

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Karen Attiah wrote a short opinion piece about how the nationwide assault on diversity, equity and inclusion led by conservatives is actually aimed at resegregation and how being precise in our language about what’s happening is crucial. These fact

The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

How much of a constitutional crisis is the tech billionaire’s DOGE causing?

California recently voted to preserve forced prison labor.

Keeping up with fast-moving trends is exhausting, both for the environment and your mental health.

Just ignore the godawful reading of Christianity he used to get there.

I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

I’m a Federal Worker. Elon Musk’s Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame. “Those outside the federal government might not understand the gravity of this situation.” And: “Now is the moment to act.”

The primer on Jevons paradox that you didn't know you needed.

Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

Prevention is the best medicine: Get background on coups, how they happen in a democracy, and what we can do to stop one.

What Maher Abi Samra's "We Were Communists" (2011) says about the present

There are a lot of them.

Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies [SpaceX and X], has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government.”