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  • Beyond Donald Trump
    February 11, 2021
    | Andrew Bacevich
    When Poisons Curdle
  • Civil Liberties
    Susan Smith: Roses and Blood
    July 28, 2020
    | Susan Smith

    When the horse-drawn wagon carrying the body of Rep. John Lewis began to make its way up the Edmund Pettus Bridge, it felt like there was a stirring of the ancestors, those in that “great cloud of witnesses” whose spirits are ever with us and who were with a young John Lewis the day police officers nearly killed him for daring to march across the bridge as part of the work to get black people ...

  • Letters From an American
    John Lewis: Thank You, Sir. May You Rest in Power.
    July 18, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    July 17, 2020 Tonight, just before midnight, we heard the news that 80-year-old Georgia Representative John Lewis has passed away from pancreatic cancer. As a young adult, Lewis was a “troublemaker,” breaking the laws of his state: he broke the laws upholding racial segregation. He organized voting registration drives and in 1960 was one of the thirteen original Freedom Riders, white and black students traveling together from Washington D.C. to New Orleans to challenge segregation. “It was ...

  • History
    Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets: Racism, Yes, But What About Militarism and Materialism?
    June 23, 2020
    | Andrew Bacevich

    In April 1967, at New York City’s Riverside Church, Dr. King delivered a sermon that offered a profound diagnosis of the illnesses afflicting the nation. King summoned the nation to “undergo a radical revolution of values” that would transform the United States “from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.” Only through such a revolution, he declared, would we be able to overcome “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.”

  • Faith & Reason
    Dr. James H. Cone
    March 2, 2020
    The Father of Black Liberation Theology
  • Society
    Rethinking Higher Education in a Time of Tyranny
    October 10, 2017
    | Henry Giroux
    What kind of democracy is possible when the institutions that are crucial to a vibrant civil society are vanishing?
  • Inequality
    Martin Luther King’s Fight for Workers’ Rights
    September 3, 2017
    | Peter Dreier
    This Labor Day let’s remember that King was committed to building bridges between the civil rights and labor movements.
  • Activism
    We Need a Revived Poor People’s Campaign
    August 21, 2017
    | Amanda Abrams
    Rev. William Barber is joining other religious and activist leaders to launch a new Poor People’s Campaign, picking up where Martin Luther King Jr. left off.
  • History
    Donald Trump's War on the 1960s
    July 27, 2017
    | Leonard Steinhorn
    To the president and his fans, the '60s undermined what was good and virtuous in America.
  • Democracy & Government
    Trump, A Symptom Of What?
    April 18, 2017
    | Ira Chernus
    A radical message from a half-century ago.


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