How Israeli Cops Triggered a War and Kept Netanyahu in Power
Police violence led to Israel’s latest war in Gaza — and helped Benjamin Netanyahu. The police are led by a Netanyahu loyalist. Coincidence?
Police violence led to Israel’s latest war in Gaza — and helped Benjamin Netanyahu. The police are led by a Netanyahu loyalist. Coincidence?
Dating back to Stalin’s reign of terror, jokes known as anekdoty survive — and thrive.
Progressives have big dreams for what the United States Postal Service can become in its next life.
Fourteen teenage students will never get to go to prom or attend college, but somehow this tragedy feels like just another chapter rather than a plot twist in America’s tortured narrative about guns.
Wait, do I have to get poked again?
As Congress prepares to pass a spending bill, the war against riders intensifies. When one party holds power in both the legislative and executive branches, these additional bill provisions may be the best way to amplify and solidify a partisan agenda.
A British diver found himself swimming amid a cluster of trash so dense it could be mistaken for a seaweed colony.
Everything is bigger in the Lone Star state — including voter suppression.
The daughter of the late Uzbek dictator finds out there are some things that even she cannot get away with.
Hackers at the annual DEF CON Voting Village discovered a sobering vulnerability in electronic poll books made by the leading manufacturer ES&S.
Today the Senate Intelligence Committee heard testimony from CIA director nominee Gina Haspel, notorious for her role in the CIA’s torture program. It’s worth remembering that the only person to go to jail over this program was whistleblower John Kiriakou. Here’s one of our interviews with him.
Is your neighbor making you mad? Don’t worry, have a beer together like these ancient Peruvians did, and everything will be fine again.