The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a ...

Zhang Yueran’s novel Women, Seated—a take on the upstairs, downstairs drama—examines class conflict among the Chinese upper ...

Al-Shifa Hospital itself has suffered endless wounds. Gaza’s Ministry of Health managed to rehabilitate parts of the hospital ...

I left academia for a tech job that offered me the promise of stability for the first time in my adult life. What happens when corporate employers become our most reliable caregivers?

Universities are raising their tuition, offering fewer classes, and axing extracurricular programs to compensate for the dip ...

For years, the national conversation about affordability has focused on a handful of large coastal cities. New York City, San ...

How many pro-democracy Substack authors over-focus on gloom and doom and ignore organizing, and who’s bucking that trend.

Now an undeclared, unauthorized, unpopular, and unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran has spread like wildfire ...

As the state promotes industrial expansion and costly seawater desalination projects, advocates want to prioritize fixing ...

Back home, the community had “overflowed” with desire to contribute funds and supplies for Cuba at two collection points in ...

It’s not just Gaza—Israel wants to exterminate all Palestinians, everywhere. We are one people being destroyed as one people.

Manuel Mujica Lainez’s historical novel, a strange biography of a 16th-century duke, leaves the reader wondering if human ...