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The southern victory could be a blueprint for defending the public sector.

How we name and define this most controversial of American wars is not a narrow scholarly exercise, but profoundly shapes public memory of its meaning and ongoing significance to American national identity and foreign policy.

The US has a whole host of social problems. More public spending would solve many of them.

Alien-nation; American and Arab; Taking back the land; Politics and the WV teachers; Rainbow gunbusters

Three Indian American immigrant groups have aligned themselves with Trump’s white supremacist agenda around immigration. They are using political clout to seek advantages on visas and quotas at the expense of other immigrant groups.

There's no guarantee that machine learning will save lives rather than end them.

On this one there is no ambiguity. Trump’s naming John Bolton as National Security Adviser is a clear declaration that Washington will intensify its current wars and do its best to start new and bigger ones.

In this era of law-and-order politics,...we do not need more incarceration. It does not make people safer, it tears communities apart, and many people, including incarcerated people themselves, have argued that incarceration actually produces mental illness.

According to the study the black-white gap in upward mobility is driven entirely by differences in men’s, not women’s, outcomes.

The myth is that pharmaceutical industry profits come from producing and selling the many therapeutic advances that industry research has generated, but the reality is far different.