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The truth shall make you a target; Arpaio’s Buchenwald; Bye bye Big Biz?; Texas turnabout; Black hat backlash; Teen Vogue throws down

A year after racial discontent neared levels not seen since the Rodney King beating case, the country finds itself convulsed by controversies over neo-Nazis emboldened by Donald Trump’s rise to power. Now, a burst of new films, many of them documentaries, are taking a deep look beyond the headlines at the lasting impact that racial schisms and racism have on Americans’ everyday lives.

The Sicilian born Marxist-feminist talks about the new, global wave of women-led mobilizations and the continuing importance of class politics.

Pushing Back and Pushing Forward in the First Six Months of the Trump Era.

Understanding the forces deforming our cities today requires more than a class analysis of capitalist land speculation. We have to talk about race.

The United States is using this Pacific colony as its own private firing range.

Historian Nancy MacLean, author of the best-selling "Democracy in Chains," argues that privatizing public education is a dream of the radical right dating back to the segregationist South.

While sexual harassment is certainly an issue, we need to look deeper at gender bias. Women who do make it to the upper ranks have often been told that they were only given that job or that award because they are women, implying that the field is admitting less-deserving women simply to increase their numbers. In fact, these studies show that many of the women in science must be more capable than the men, to even have advanced in the field. And who wants to admit that?

To portray Ronald Reagan as a friend of the working class is not only fallacious—it is dangerous.

"You would think that activists would just be exhausted and giving up, but not only are they getting louder, they're banding together and making their voices heard at every turn."