Lessons from long-lost civilizations. By Hannah Yi.

With a restless Democratic base leaning left, party centrists are looking for their Justin Trudeau — a candidate who will seem progressive while preserving the status quo. By Luke Savage.

Once again, Facebook is embroiled in a scandal where it was caught violating millions of people's privacy. By Trevor Timm.

Democrats once favored an end to Middle East wars. Reflecting their Trump-era ethos, Democrats are now their primary proponents. By Glenn Greenwald.

It’s been tough to find much to laugh about this year. But Britain’s most savage satirist is going to give it a go... By Frankie Boyle.

Author Carmen Segarra sounds off on Goldman Sachs, deregulation and how our culture rewards bad behavior. By Robert Scheer.

When people die from lack of access to medicine, health care profiteers should expect resistance. By Mike Ludwig.

We spoke to Bernard Harcourt about his latest book, “The Counterrevolution,” and what makes the Trump presidency unique. By Jeremy Scahill.

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk." – Hegel. By Stephen Cohen.

Throughout his time as the Trump administration’s Interior Secretary, Zinke has been at odds with conservationists on the Endangered Species Act. By Stephan Cho.

His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run, says Rebecca Solnit

United States elections are not evidence-based elections. Their potential vulnerability is critical because the entire system of our democracy depends on public trust—the belief that, however divided the country is, the result has integrity. Nothing is more insidious and corrosive than the idea that the tally of votes itself could be unreliable and exposed to fraud. By Jennifer Cohn.

Immigration officials stopped allowing a volunteer group to visit people at a local detention facility unless its members agreed not to talk with the press or other groups about conditions inside. By Kate Morrissey.

Georgia, Texas cases show states whistling past voting security graveyard. By Sean Gallagher.

How a surgeon who has been dubbed “Dr. Death” got away with harming patients for a criminally long time. By Laura Beil.

A decade after the worst fighting overseas, five combat veterans put the Forever War and American civilian life into perspective. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.

Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war? By Jonathan Taplin.

As of Nov. 8, more than 82,000 veterans are still waiting for their housing payments with only weeks remaining in the school semester. By Phil McCausland.

Just before he left, the departing attorney-general adopted a policy to limit the Justice Department’s ability to oversee abusive police departments. That same policy could also hamper the department’s role in environmental, voting-rights, and other cases. By Ian MacDougall.

A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it. By L. M. Sacasas.

Want to become a police officer, firefighter, or paramedic? A Wired investigation finds government jobs are one of the last holdouts in using—and misusing—otherwise debunked polygraph technology. By Mark Harris.

The U.S. military has a detailed plan to save the living, or at least outlast the dead. By Stephen L. Carter.

The image of the standing Sand Palace amid the ruin caused by Hurricane Michael tells us one thing: only the rich will survive climate change. By Kate Wagner.

As poverty and violence force Guatemalans to leave their country, one anthropologist reflects on her work with Indigenous peoples in the highlands—and shows how the U.S. is implicated in its own “migrant crisis.” By Emily Yates-Doerr.

The scheme is hitting the poorest Americans—and making less money than IRS in-house collectors. By Max de Haldevang, Justin Rohrlich.

There’s a case to be made that Donald Trump is simultaneously the biggest liar in U.S. political history and its greatest truth-teller. By Jon Schwarz.

Leaving the EU might well be demanded by the victor as a way of ensuring that Britain was permanently weakened. By Patrick Cockburn.

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj

“It has become increasingly clear to me that the proposed deal is not in the British national interest, and that to vote for this deal is to set ourselves up for failure. We will be losing, not taking control of our national destiny.” By Sam Gyimah. [Seventh minister resigns.]

We track the journey of a single gun, used in 11 shootings in six years. By Ashitha Nagesh.

Critics say the search giant is squelching competition before it begins. Should the government step in? By Charles Duhigg.

Humanity’s food security is at far more risk than you realize. By Jonas O Bergman. (Mar. 8, 2018)

A new documentary explores the “city of the future” that was meant to provide a blueprint for urban centers across America. By Lorraine Boissoneault.

Too bad the poorhouse is going condo. By Doktor Zoom.

Blame America’s outdated copyright laws.