Is empathy our enemy?, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, feeling hopeful for next week, JOLT, The Movement, ...

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Election Day is now less barely a week away, and though it’s too early to begin counting our wins and losses, we can already ...

We don’t know the ballot winners yet, but the surrogate race has been decided. If Buttigieg is the big surrogate winner, ...

Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic, a nationalist who has cultivated ties to Donald Trump and Vladmir Putin and has downplayed his country’s 1990s war crimes, conceded defeat in elections Sunday to a ...

Lula’s victory breaks a succession of seven right-wing presidential wins across Latin America over the past 18 months. Brazil ...

As I write this, I’m packing my bags and my briefs (the legal kind). Next week, I’ll be in federal court in California to help argue against Donald Trump’s latest effort to sabotage our elections: his ...

“Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.” — Hunter S. Thompson The tv is on in my living ...

Ramaswamy’s abominable ad, small-ball at the World Series, five movies to see this fall, France on fire, The Deep State, the ...

Contrarian editor in chief Jen Rubin and publisher Norm Eisen chatted with pollster and data whiz Simon Rosenberg about what early turnout numbers look like and what that could mean for a blue wave in ...

Directed by Simon Stone, the film tells the real-life story of Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor best known for his role in ...