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The summer before my junior year of college, I worked at a beachside fast-casual restaurant in Long Island, flipping burgers for $12 an hour, the state minimum wage. It was a great gig. I could walk to work, the pay was decent, and I got to hang out at the beach after my shift. What I didn’t realize at the time was that I wasn’t just working a summer job but I was an unknowi...

“The United States wins its point whenever justice is done to its citizens in the courts” is inscribed in the Robert F. Kennedy Building in Washington, D.C., home to the Department of Justice. It signifies that the government’s goal is justice and fairness, rather than ...

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered on December 4, 2024. 

The Democratic Speaker of the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman, and her husband were

In his second term, Donald Trump has revived some of the most punitive imagery in modern American politics. Despite the exorbitant costs that forced it to close decades ago, he wants to reopen Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. Florida opened a migrant detention facility quic...

On April 22, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly disclosed that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was in discussions with the United States government about a currency swap to assist the Gulf nation as it struggles with a liquidity crisis caused by the war with Iran. He supported the concept and said that “many” U.S. allies in the region have