At the Democratic National Convention, union leaders took the spotlight. But will that actually translate into policy?

David Livingstone Smith, one of the world's leading scholars on dehumanization, explains what it is, why we're so prone to it, and how to resist it.

These are not our dads or aunts. We are electing a head of state who will wield immense power and control a massive nuclear arsenal. “Policy” is not peripheral or dispensable, it’s the only thing that really matters. 

Across the United States, property owners are forcing their tenants to endure life-threatening extreme heat. They have to be stopped.

Graffiti is a visible reminder that, despite everything, people are still struggling along, making their mark. That humanity remains, in all its messy glory, despite every attempt to flatten and sanitize it away.

Besides being obvious attacks on public health and personal freedom of expression, mask bans give police even more power to use violence and the threat of imprisonment to address political and social problems.

Christopher Rufo visited Britain and saw non-white people, leading him to conclude that civilization is being hollowed out.

Economist Teresa Ghilarducci on why some 90-year-old Americans are pushing shopping carts in the heat trying to make ends meet.