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Finn Green works for the US Post Office as a rural carrier associate in and around Ojai, California. On a typical Monday, Green and other rural postal carriers deliver Amazon packages for hours without overtime pay. When mail volume is higher, such as days…

In the wake of the attempted shooting at the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the media response caused me to reflect on a topic that I almost wrote about during Lent.

I know, the news media thrives on any drama it can find, but I was struck by the relentless fixation on repeatedly re-airing video footage of Erika Kirk crying. Why are so many fixated upon seeing a widow grieve, such…

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is no longer on Donald Trump’s good side after criticizing his remarks against Pope Leo XIV.

On Tuesday, responding to Meloni’s comment the day before, Trump told the Italian newspaper _Corriere della Sera_ that he was “shocked by her. I thought she was brave, but I was wrong.”

Meloni had said it was “unacceptable” that Trump called the pope “weak on crime”…

The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resources.

The resource wars between the US and China have accelerated the determination of both sides to escape their dependencies on each…

Working-class voters already back Medicare for All. Framed like Social Security — as a benefit earned from work, not a handout — it can reach two-thirds support.

The candidates who win on health care in the future won’t be policy wonks or those declaring it a human right. They’ll be the ones who make insurance companies the villain, frame universal coverage as freedom, and present it…

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.

“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

Through more than three years in power, Italian premier Giorgia Meloni has often seemed to have an electoral magic touch. Her defeat in a judicial-reform referendum today tells us she still can’t rewrite the country's constitution at will.

Italian premier Giorgia Meloni’s referendum on judicial reform lost. (Nicolas Tucat / AFP via Getty Images)

“I think it’s a victory like the…

A photograph called _Love (Hands in Hair)_ from the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans shows a young woman in red lipstick, eyes closed, a man’s hands on her head, in a nightclub. This image from 1989, which appears on the cover of the historian Anton Jäger’s new book, _Hyperpolitics,_ captured a sort of beginning. The weight of history is over, and the music can sway. That world, Jäger…