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Organizers described Sunday’s protest as “the largest climate rally in history” and Reverend Lennox Yearwood compared it to Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington for civil rights.

In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists. The following is an excerpt from The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson (Ig Publishing, 2012).

A budding coalition of immigrants and African-Americans - modeled on the outstanding community- and labor-organizing example of Culinary Workers Union Local 226 - is potentially the largest progressive force in America - one capable of transforming the trajectory of US history.

Is the U.S. a less upwardly mobile society than Britain a century ago?