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Emails show sex trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein worked Israeli connections to help his lawyer’s daughter join an elite IDF unit. The woman, who Epstein wrote would make a “fantastic ambassador for Israel” at Columbia University, served on the board of Hillel International. Jeffrey Epstein personally recruited an 18-year-old girl from New York to serve “in one of the elite IDF units,” email records show. Epstein’s request came in a June 29, 2011 email to Anat Barak, the daughter of former […]

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Tom Orsag tells the story of how union power and solidarity broke WA's repressive anti-protest laws.

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Know your web design history.

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Before you ask, yes—I’m actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask this question as if it comes with a proviso, like something unfortunate but manageable is about to happen to your lunch. But I’ve been in therapy for a while now, and one of the things I’ve learned is that I’m not responsible for managing other people’s expectations—especially when those expectations were built around a different soda entirely.

I see the moment the question lands. You pause to scan the menu, even though it won’t change. I clock the quick glance toward the server, as if they might somehow intervene. Sometimes you whisper it to the table; sometimes you say it too loudly, like you’re warning everyone else. I stay where I am, patient and effervescent, while you work through your feelings that have nothing to do with me.

In March 2003, hundreds of thousands of us took to the streets to oppose the illegal invasion of Iraq. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s justification for the war was pithy: it was our moral duty to topple Saddam Hussein and neutralise the global threat he represented. Iraq possessed weapons of mass […]

Since the AIDS pandemic, the LGBTQ+ community has been reinventing funerary rituals to better reflect the way people lived

- Directed by Mariana Leal

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Whole regions of the world are now uninsurable, bringing radical uncertainty to the economy. How do we fix the problem?

- by Gavin Evans

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In the pool, my softer, heavier self rediscovered motion and power – proof that this body, too, can swim

- by Sarah Boon

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