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Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

Government serves special interests, not people.

Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You

Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers. Now the pandemic is creating a boom in the industry.

Trump’s Twitter hacked after Dutch researcher guessed password – report

Victor Gevers said he had access to president’s account, De Volkskrant reported, but Twitter said ’we’ve seen no evidence’Donald Trump’s Twitter account was ...

Exclusive: America’s true unemployment rate

A new dataset shared exclusively with “Axios on HBO” suggests the real jobless rate is 26%.

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be

ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely i…

This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic

It’s not R.

Discovering the life story of Dr. Good, who survived the Nazis

As he and his father hid from the Germans in a Polish forest, the boy who would become a kindly suburban Southern California doctor vowed to study medicine.

Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: It’s great that athletes are speaking out. But some of them are spouting nonsense

Many athletes are informed and articulate, but some of those speaking out have voiced absurd opinions that threaten to reinforce the old ‘dumb-jock’ stereotype.

How many children go missing every year?

Two boys abducted in Missouri were found in a St. Louis suburb last Friday, in the home of a pizza shop employee. One had been missing for less than a...

Column: ‘Fortnite’ maker draws praise for fighting Apple, but lawsuits allege it rips off kids

“Fortnite” tempts children into spending their and their parents’ money on virtual game items without fully understanding what they’re doing and with little or no chance of obtaining refunds, lawsuits allege.