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Behold, the New GOP Culture Wars

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The Republican Party’s latest wave of attacks against anyone who threatens the white supremacist patriarchy is couched in false concern for health and well-being.

Americans Want Government-Run Health Care—What’s Standing in the Way?

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It’s true that the number of uninsured Americans has dropped to an all-time low. But that fact obscures the failures of our patchwork, profit-driven health care system.

Google’s Stock Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees—But What Did They Get Out of It?

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The tech sector is laying off tens of thousands of workers, making it clear that economic growth is currently valued above all else.

An Ancient Recipe for Social Success

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New evidence and understandings about the structure of successful early societies across Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere are sweeping away the popular assumption that early societies tended toward autocracy and despotism.

Nepo Babies and the Myth of the Meritocracy

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Society’s top tiers are rife with nepotism. It’s past time to expose just how much unearned wealth and power has been accrued by elites.

Our Health Care System Is Broken—Fixing It Is Not Hard

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Almost everyone agrees that our health care system is in dire need of an overhaul. But rather than seeing it as a problem that needs solving simply and efficiently, the system has become a target for capitalist opportunism.

The Midterm Election Is Over, But Stolen Election Conspiracies Remain

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Republican candidates for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general who denied the results or the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election were widely rejected by battleground state voters in 2022’s general election.