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New York poet Kathy Engel responds to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s rescinding an award to Angela Davis.

Tracing the history of an idea, the author charts liberalism’s two century Jekyll and Hyde existence as a credo on freedom and an ill-fitting defender of mass democracy.

This first book by a young African American writer offers a glimpse into the post-Ferguson generation's thinking and concerns. In this essay, reviewer Mtshali engages in a productive dialogue with these ideas and concerns.

"Get Me Roger Stone" uses Stone’s story as a cipher for modern political history. It’s a horror show!

Keto diet prescribes 80% of calories from fats, the rest from protein, with minimal carbohydrates. This means lots of meat, dairy, butter, eggs, nuts, seeds and oils, and avoiding grains and carb-heavy fruits and vegetables.

Breezy, irreverent and obviously far from complete, this fictionalized piece of pop history goes behind the scenes to focus on the "Leave" campaign's top strategist, an exceedingly clever, exceedingly annoying man named Dominic Cummings.

New York poet Robin Myers captures the omnipresent mix of commerce with big-city surveillance.

Class struggle still dominates civil society under capitalism. The new terrain explored here, as well as its undoing by working people, lies in capital’s increased capacity to squeeze more work out of every minute of every work day.

In this essay, the author of a new biography of Hobsbawm, the famous Marxist historian, gives us a brief assessment of British Communist writer's life and work.

Vice is a picture that distills entire semesters worth of history, geopolitics, psychology, media theory, film studies, and military analysis into a historical comedy-drama that has netted far less attention and box office receipts than it deserved.