A look at the rhetoric versus the reality of venture capital.

Many of the repressive police tactics and technologies used in the US have been developed in the Middle East to suppress dissent. Ending police violence at home must involve ending America’s wars abroad.

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration was a key New Deal agency that put millions of unemployed workers back to work on public infrastructure projects. We need a new WPA for the 21st century.

When asked about calls for an investigation into DHS police tactics in Portland, Oregon, Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security...

How did a civilized society come to embrace Hitler’s extreme ideas? In 2018, Alex Ross wrote about the scholars mapping the international precursors of Nazism.

Of course, it would have been worse for the Law and Justice party if Trzaskwski had won. But PiS is still worried.

An analysis of leaked law enforcement documents reveals an obsession with “antifa” despite evidence of threats of violence to police and protesters.

The COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged influential figures like Gordon Brown and Tony Blair to press for new structures of global governance. But the system they have in mind won’t be democratic. We need a radically democratic world government.

If racism were thought of as a mental disorder, would it help the efforts to make the world a less racist place, or make them harder?

Social justice activists start a project on capitalism in Nairobi by asking: Is there such a thing as a decent wage anymore?

The defeats of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders have exposed the limits of left electoralism. It is time to look back at its surprising rise and rapid fall.

How thwarted Hollywood ambitions, Silicon Valley hubris, and a long war on objectivity gave rise to Drudge, Breitbart, and other right-wing media insurgents

UC Berkeley professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics George Lakoff explores how successful political debates are framed by using language targeted to people's values instead of their support for specific government programs in this public lecture sponsored…

Electronic monitoring keeps people out of prison, while finding new ways to punish them.

The 1975 “dismissal” of Gough Whitlam by the Queen’s representative, Sir John Kerr, is one of the defining moments in Australia’s modern history. It also forms part of a Cold War history that saw left-wing governments around the globe punished for daring…

Everyone who values democracy, justice and human decency should assist the Palestinians in achieving this goal.