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After a significant year for the gun control movement in 2018, momentum for stricter firearms laws in states across the country likely will accelerate this year.

AIPAC Offensive; 2020 x 2; Red Menace; Blackface; FBI Serves and Protects KKK; Jacobin Breaks Out

Though opposition to abortion is what many think fueled the powerful conservative white evangelical right, 81 percent of whom voted for Donald Trump, it was really school integration, according to Randall Balmer, chairman of the religion department

Between 1930 and 1980, the rate applied on the highest incomes was on average 81 percent, and the rate applied to the highest inherited estates was 74 percent. Clearly this did not destroy American capitalism.

Putin hasn’t deviated from Yeltsin, the Soviet past was a great help to the new Russia, and other original points concerning Russia's role in the world.

In the Lone Star State, a preview of the political battle to come.

“It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn’t been as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians.” — Jair Bolsonaro, quoted in Correio Braziliense newspaper, April 12, 1998, translated.

Immigrant-detainee suicides indicate that the Stewart Detention Center and ICE are out of step with a trend in corrections to keep seriously mentally ill people out of solitary confinement.

The decision to terminate a pregnancy is never a political one, it is a personal one... We need to start listening to people with first-hand experience instead of talking heads, priests and politicians.

The first step...is distinguishing between Trump’s ideological narrative about America and the specific policies his administration is moving to implement. The second step is to identify Trump’s worldview...and hit at it every chance we get.