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Seventy-five years ago, my father and I gazed down from the stands at Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle in the outfield at Yankee Stadium. I was thrilled by

Was it just me or was there nothing more weird than when the US over a year ago opened up direct US-Russian talks on Ukraine without even having Ukraine

Fifty years ago, Carl Jensen founded Project Censored because he knew that journalism was the lifeblood of democracy. He argued that the news media,

Our dependence on fossil fuels does more than pollute our air. It destabilizes the world and empowers the ultra-wealthy to profit off of that volatility,

Our smart phones reveal a lot about us. In order to function, they connect with communications networks and geolocation services, creating detailed maps

US president Donald Trump says that his war in Iran – currently in a supposed ceasefire – resulted in "total and complete victory. 100%. No question about

The recent events on the national and world stage are pretty hard to ignore given the effects on Americans, our allies and even our fellow Montanans who

Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party Volume One, Coming of Age in the Communist and Labor Movements. Edited by Jay Shaffner, Paul Friedman,

As expected, inflation was sharply higher in March than in prior months. The overall inflation rate for March was 1.3 percent, although inflation in the

Amidst Donald Trump’s wild Middle East War declarations, the tech billionaire push to nuclear reactor suicide has escalated with the shock relicensing of

Fifteen miles off the coast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, I descended through blue-green water along the anchor line that connected our dive boat to a

Donald Trump loathes mail-in voting — except, of course, when he uses this method to cast his own ballot, as he did in a recent Florida special election.

When inventor Christopher Latham Sholes debuted the typewriter in 1872, he declined to pose with his machine for press photographs. Instead, the first

The recent announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran has been met with a predictable mix of relief and skepticism. President

In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.  The Israeli version of a ceasefire might

The international liberal commentariat is celebrating again. Viktor Orbán, the long-reigning right-wing strongman of Hungary, has been defeated in the

Individuals and corporations alike can spend infinite sums of money to influence elections and push candidates that will support and – at the very least –

Are The Terminator, The Matrix and other such films entertainment, or are they prophecy? With the fast progress of artificial intelligence over the last