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It may be risky politically, but Congress has a responsibility to act

The federal Works Progress Administration's version of “public art” was vastly different the the “public art” sponsored by Confederate apologists

Why the former vice president needs voters to believe America was great before Trump ruined it

Slavery lasted for nearly 250 years. Counting the nearly century-long Jim Crow segregation of African Americans, officially sanctioned racial oppression encompassed more than 80% of U.S. history.

Peter Neil Carroll’s “Sanctuary” honors the work of Proactiva Open Arms, a non-governmental volunteer group of lifeguards who rescue refugees at sea.

Bernie Sanders can beat Donald Trump — and it would be an epic act of self-destruction for Democrats to try and hobble his campaign. Sanders is unquestionably in the top tier of candidates for the Democratic nomination.

During that semester I taught six separate classes and was responsible for more than 250 students. Despite the pretense that real instruction was taking place, teachers like me were largely engaged in crowd management and little more.

The third Omar controversy in as many months concerns remarks that the congresswoman made during an event of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Then President Trump tweeted a video “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!”

The case for an immediate withdrawal from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. It is time to revive the anti-war movement in the U.S. in order to push the political establishment to abandon its imperialist policies and white-savior tendencies.

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