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The campaigns aimed to create feelings of guilt amongst those believed to be suffering with STDs, particularly syphilis.

Huey Newton’s shifting political analysis illuminates both the limits and the ongoing relevance of the radicalism of the Black Panther era.

Frightened slaveowners cast the rebel leader as a monster. Scholars have misunderstood his religiosity. A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.

Our leaders’ tendency toward imperial arrogance is often recognized, especially when we lose a war. But it is not often suspected that our leaders reflect a broader professional class insularity and blindness that is toxic abroad as well as at home.

Putin's United Russia sought to maintain its authority in recent election. It remained in power, but weakened. The biggest winner: Russia's Communist Party which showed some signs of possible renewal.

According to the Congressional Budget Office

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to pioneers in climate modeling. Their names are not known to the general public, but their work made predictions of global warming and modern weather forecasting possible.

As corporations fail to meet worker demands, they are increasingly encountering a labor force that isn’t going to take it. They are striking; they are picketing; they are demanding fair contracts. They are forming new unions. It's a beautiful thing.

Trump's White House counsel called his plan to overturn the 2020 election a "murder-suicide pact," according to a new Senate Judiciary Committee report on Trump's election subversion efforts.

Biden's Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill amounts to only 1.5 percent of US gross domestic product. If it were to pass as is, the US social support system would still be small by world standards.