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What we refer to as “Western civilization” was built from centuries of enslavement, murder, and willful impoverishment of people of color.

This new defense of a humanities education is a must read, says reviewer Meranze, "for anyone concerned with the relationship between humanistic activity and American democracy."

I have been reading about what follows when institutions that are supposed to moderate extremist, demagogic leaders default in their role. And how easily those institutions are swept aside, at best complicit in their own irrelevance, at worst full partners in the brazen agenda of the demagogue.

Republicans on and off the bench are moving to kill unions. But millennials—the most pro-union generation since the 1930s—may yet find a way to organize.

Alien-nation; American and Arab; Taking back the land; Politics and the WV teachers; Rainbow gunbusters

The US has a whole host of social problems. More public spending would solve many of them.

How we name and define this most controversial of American wars is not a narrow scholarly exercise, but profoundly shapes public memory of its meaning and ongoing significance to American national identity and foreign policy.

The southern victory could be a blueprint for defending the public sector.

A self-confessed fan of regime change, the latest US national security advisor looks to be itching for a new conflict in the Middle East.

Steven Soderbergh’s new film is the story of a women held in a psychiatric hospital. It shows how film-makers are doing a better job with mental health issues.