If you were in the ghettoes of Newark, Detroit or scores of other cities that summer, you were not wearing flowers in your hair. Forget about utopia: You were staking out, in action, fury and bitterness.

Fifty years ago this week, in the summer of 1967, the streets of Newark exploded in violence. Here is a first-hand account of the tragic events that changed the city forever.

Can we stop feeling quite so helpless and hopeless in a world on the skids?

Counter-protestors relate the story of the Charlottesville, Virginia, Klan rally and reaction.

Trump debases the country, and we will all have to get our hands dirty.

Here's what one state's radical experiment after the American Revolution can tell us about democracy today.

That a billionaire would assume the mantle of pitchfork populism may seem like a political and cultural oxymoron, but Trump is far more like his supporters than appearances suggest.

A historian reminds us that to truly “make America great again” we must enhance freedom, equality and democracy, not diminish them.

A disillusioned veteran of the Reagan White House has some advice for liberals.

When Donald Trump's promises of American greatness (white male supremacy) restored prove empty, there will be hell to pay.