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The Supreme Court has long held banishment as unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.

And Democrats not only don't have the same network, but they don't seem interested in building one.

The words we use matter. So let's say what's actually happening.

I carry coal company scrip in a little zipper pouch in my wallet everywhere I go. It’s a few little coins, with holes punched in them. I bought them from

The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.

When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …

Every system that frustrates your customer also dulls your brand. Every rule that makes no sense becomes a barrier to trust. And every moment that feels disconnected chips away at your credibility.

Imagine that all of us—all of society—have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the United States or any other country. We do not have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking. How would we govern ourselves? It is unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. Modern representative democracy was the best form of government that eighteenth-century technology could invent. The twenty-first century is very different: scientifically, technically, and philosophically. For example, eighteenth-century democracy was designed under the assumption that travel and communications were both hard...

Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century gilded.

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to the 19th century.

Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.

🚨 This TED talk is an absolute must-watch. 🚨

“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” — the powerful tech executives who are using their global digital platforms to amass unprecedented geopolitical power, dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. Her rallying cry: resist data harvesting and mass surveillance, and support others in a groundswell of digital disobedience. “You have more power than you think,” she says. (This talk contains mature language.)

In a new memoir, French Gates writes about the end of her marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and her ongoing philanthropic work, directing funds and attention to women's health initiatives.

Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.

Forty years ago, U.S. corporate honchos saw their power ebbing away. So they did what corporate honchos always do. They asked for a memo to try and bring back their power and influence.

As restrictions on abortion sweep the country, and Roe v. Wade is under attack, a look back at the covert service called “Jane.”

It’s not a network. It’s a holding pattern for the white-collar workers who helped build the modern world—only to find themselves without a future in it. Two hundred and twenty million people have signaled they want out. That’s not a platform—it’s a collapse with