On behalf of Social Security, of course

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Heart's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from a regional airport in upstate New York, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet...

With this spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy. 

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No contract? No Starbucks coffee at the union hall. Seeking to pressure Starbucks to finally sign a contract with its 12,000 unionized baristas, Starbucks Workers United announced a boycott of the cha...

And what economic policy do they need

Six practices for how to treat each other when we exchange information.

“Haiti remains gripped by armed violence [...] and a profound humanitarian crisis [and] the Supreme Court has given a green light to treat hundreds of thousands of Haitian families as disposable.”

Far from an obscure subset of science fiction, as it may have been in the previous century, queer sci-fi is now leading the genre.

Transcript: A few years ago I had the idea to make a new series of videos explaining various logical fallacies. I made one, about ad hominems, and then realized I hated it and I never did it again.…

The annual report of the Social Security board of trustees, issued last month, has prompted Congress to return to one of its favorite pastimes: creating bipartisan Social Security commissions. More pr...

Nobody has more riding on any changes to Social Security than people under 40. The trust fund is currently projected to run dry in the fourth quarter of 2032, but it could be sooner. Every election, s