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  • Activism
    The Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO
    March 15, 2021
    | Democracy NOW!
    Activists Mark 50th Anniversary of Daring FBI Break-in
  • Media
    'Sometimes to Tell the Truth, You Have to Take a Stand'
    January 22, 2021
    | Ti-Hua Chang
    These words from legendary CBS producer Fred Friendly are on the mind of a former student.
  • Letters From an American
    Trump and the Troops
    September 4, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The Atlantic published a story detailing Trump’s contempt for military service and the self-sacrifice of those killed in the line of duty. Trump is reacting with panic.

  • 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.”

  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Lucille Clifton
    June 12, 2020
    "sorrow song"
  • Democracy & Government
    The Die is Cast. Can the Republic Be Saved?
    June 4, 2020
    | Jim Sleeper

    Demagogue that he is and that he’s toyed with becoming since well before he ran for president, Donald Trump used his June 2 rant against looting and thuggery after George Floyd’s murder to bang the drum for a civil war that he’s been toying with. But how pure was the republic before he stepped into the spotlight?

  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Maxine Hong Kingston Reads a Poem by Sandy Scull
    May 11, 2020
    "Sea Salt"
  • War & Peace
    How the US Paved the Way for 'Generational' War
    October 17, 2017
    | Tom Engelhardt
    By removing most Americans from the combat arena, we gained the ability to wage war forever, and damn the consequences.
  • War & Peace
    The Forever War
    March 7, 2017
    | Rebecca Gordon
    When did we start to think of the president as commander-in-chief first and executor of laws a distant second?
  • History
    Lessons From Vietnam on Inauguration Day
    January 20, 2017
    | Lynn Sherr
    Resistance doesn’t mean just standing strong; it means doing so without rushing, and without faltering.


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