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As results from the recent midterm elections show and the book under review chronicles, restrictive voter identification laws, registration requirements, felon disenfranchisement and voter purges still deny millions access to the ballot box.

This new collection of essays by a highly regarded radical intellectual receives a mixed, but engaging review.

Focusing on Ford Motor Co.’s rise, the author posits a connect between racial practices in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa and Ford’s divisive labor processes, seeing racism as an essential element in the creation of global capitalism.

At a moment when the President of the United States is attacking the very idea of U.S. citizenship, this book reminds us how the true — and Constitutional — ideal of who this country belongs to is embedded in our traditions.

Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has gotten a few things wrong over his career. But his memoir shows a reporter with broad and brave consistency, exposing one atrocity and cover-up by the forces of American imperial power after another.

Here is a review of a new history of the pro-Nazi movement in the United States in the years before World War II. That movement was far more popular than many people know.

A paean to Marx's contemporary relevance, the author argues in an excerpt from his new book that what makes Marx a stranger even to Marxist movements is not simply the difficulty of certain key works and passages, but a series of other obstacles.

Reviewer Claybourn says this new biography is likely to become the definitive one of the great 19th Century leader of the African American freedom struggle and champion of democracy.

Nietzsche was overlooked for most of his career. By the time his genius was discovered, his health had rapidly deteriorated.

For Jill Lepore, the United States has always been a nation caught between its sunny ideals and its darker realities.