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One thing I have noticed in the rightward lurch of the federal judiciary over the years, especially the Supreme Court (and rulings that appear intended to repeal the entirety of the 20th century), is how often they grant relief to plaintiffs using religious freedom as their rationale. Such cases used to be about believers being

This Fourth of July, let’s rescue our love of country from those who have hijacked it.

What's really behind this push back to the office.

I hope everyone will forgive me taking this week to break from our normal diet of history-and-pop-culture (though we are discussing a key historical concept here – it is me after all), but it…

I say, therefore, that the arms with which a prince defends his state are either his own, or they are mercenaries, auxiliaries, or mixed. Mercenaries and...

A number of historains are reassessing the American Revolutionary War and looking at it as much more of a global conflict than previously portrayed, with one of the last battles between key protagonists actually fought in India.

The chief executives of Pinterest, Peloton and Hertz are among those who outearn Apple’s Tim Cook—and hundreds of others who lead bigger companies.

Why nobody can rein in the increasingly erratic patriarch of the Fox Corporation.

A half century after the induction of the last draftee, America’s military faces tough choices.

An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.

It feels like we have no choice but to keep grinding – but the anti-work movement looks heroic in the face of burnout and climate catastrophe, writes Emma Beddington

A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that economic inequality on a social level cannot be explained by bad choices among the poor nor by good decisions among the rich. Poor decisions were the same across all income groups, including for people who have overcome poverty.

Today the Supreme Court followed up on yesterday’s decision gutting affirmative action with three decisions that will continue to push the United States back to the era before the New Deal. In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis the court said that the First Amendment protects website designer Lorie Smith from having to use words she doesn’t believe in support of gay marriage. To get there, the court focused on the marriage website designer’s contention that while she is willing to work with LGBTQ customers, she doesn’t want to use her own words on a personalized website to celebrate gay marriages. Because of that unwillingness, she said, she wants to post on her website that she will not make websites for same-sex weddings. She says she is afraid that in doing so, she will run afoul of Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws, which prevent public businesses from discriminating against certain groups of people.

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America's fantastic endowment and entrepreneurial spirit maintain its global preeminence.

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Photographs have always been an imperfect reproduction of real life — see the story of Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother or

Shows that are being taken off the service include 'Becca’s Bunch,' 'Pig Goat Banana Cricket,' and 'Star Trek: Prodigy.'

The Whiskered Odyssey of Body Hair and Hairless Bodies - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic

University students in Australia are sharing beds with strangers because they cannot afford to rent a room of their own due to sky-high rental prices.

Over the last 15 years, individual households have concentrated their spending on a few preferred products. However, this is not driven by “superstar” products capturing larger market shares. Instead, households increasingly purchase different products from each other. As a result, aggregate spending concentration has decreased. We develop a model of heterogeneous household demand and use […]

The court ended one of our most effective social justice policies because anything that isn’t seen to primarily benefit white people is anathema to this country.

Scientists have long held that early human men did the hunting and women the gathering. A new review of data on foraging societies in modern times suggests that most women hunted.

There’s more to the housing affordability crisis than Airbnb.

Mark Roy Anderson used charm and cunning to hoodwink music producer Birdman Williams and many others. And he’s back in trouble again.

They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig