Actor Jane Fonda, photographed in August at the Los Angeles Times headquarters in El Segundo, has become a leading voice fighting climate change. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Celebrated for ...

Celebrated for decades as Hollywood royalty, Jane Fonda could easily be living a comfortable life of extravagance and leisure. Instead, the 87-year-old actor and Vietnam War era provocateur is more ...

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In an age of hyper-partisan media and culture-war politics, being blacklisted feels dangerously relevant again. But blacklists lose their power comes when artists, workers and citizens together.

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He lives in another country, where personal freedom is strongly protected. I recently told him how bad things are here in the US — not how bad they could be, but how bad they are. Troops in the street ...

The Greeks were the most inventive, developing techniques for swaying voters, for stealing elections, and disqualifying opponents from running for office. Some of the Athenian politicians were as ...

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In the West, the "tax states"  we now live under are relatively modern institutions, and they developed from earlier non-state civil governments that were ...

Named for the site where Lenape chiefs would meet to settle disputes, Shackamaxon, by The Inquirer's Daniel Pearson, offers viewpoints on the work of elected officials in Philadelphia and Harrisburg.

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