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  1. What Aiken Said George Aiken
    8 Aug 2015 … It’s hard to imagine a Republican of national stature denouncing his party for being unfair to labor, for being too friendly with Wall Street, for failing to lead. But it happened in 1938. Continue reading
  2. Islamophobia’s Anniversary Ann Podina from Long Island attends a rally in opposition to the controversial proposed mosque located near Ground Zero during the 9/11 anniversary remembrance ceremony in New York on Sept. 11, 2010. (Photo by Carol Guzy/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    5 May 2017 … May 25 is the seventh anniversary of Islamophobia in America. Not that the irrational fear and hatred of Muslims and Islam started then and there, but rather that the events helped coalesce a loose alliance of bigots and opportunists into Continue reading
  3. Angela Glover Blackwell
    4 Apr 2012 … Angela Glover Blackwell has spent most of her adult life working to advance the cause of economic and social equity for all. She is the founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social Continue reading
  4. A Poet a Day: Marge Piercy Marge Piercy
    6 Jun 2020 … During these trying days of social distancing, self-isolating and quarantines, days rife with fear and anxiety, my colleagues and I thought you might like some company. So each day we will be introducing you to poets we have met over Continue reading
  5. Curing the Economy The floor of the American Stock Exchange in New York is crowded with workers as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted about 157 points in one of its worst one-day losses, Oct. 27, 1987. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda)
    6 Jun 1992 … Bill Moyers considers what we can do to repair the US economy. Among those who discuss potential solutions are Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect; Henry Nau, author of The Myth of America’s Decline; and Patricia Saiki, head of Continue reading
  6. Reading Dostoyevsky For Thanksgiving Portrait by Vasily Perov. (Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
    11 Nov 2016 … Dostoyevsky’s books enact a radical empathy. Amid ugliness, strife, distortion, mutilation, a hand reaches as through flame to stroke the anguished face of another. A man asks himself in the cold of winter, "If the rich have so much money, Continue reading
  7. Will the Immigration Bill Help Migrant Farmworkers?
    7 Jul 2013 … Migrant farmworkers are among the most marginalized people in the country. Will they be helped by the proposed immigration bill? Continue reading
  8. The Midterm Elections: Here’s What You Told Us You Think
    11 Nov 2014 … We've received close to 7,000 comments on Facebook reacting to Tuesday's midterm elections. Continue reading
  9. It’s Almost Twenty Years Since 9/11 Military service men and women and military academies join veterans for New York City's annual Veteran's Day parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Nov. 11, 2016. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2020 … Maybe this time we can finally ask whether trying to prop up a dying empire actually makes us — or indeed the world — any safer. Continue reading
  10. Donald Trump Goes All In for the Military-Industrial Complex President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of the US Congress on February 28, 2017 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … Donald Trump used his first Joint Address to the Congress of the United States to engage in an unprecedented flight of fiscal fantasy. Specifically, the president imagined that the United States could cut taxes for wealthy Americans and corporations, rip Continue reading