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After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.

A sketch in his notebook might become the basis for a comic, Schumann said. "Instead of leaving it hidden on those pages," he said, "start drawing away and make it public.

Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

When WikiLeaks first released its hoard of documents, extracts were published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El País. None of these has campaigned for Assange’s freedom, though if he did anything wrong, so did they.

I feel trapped in violence that extends from Palestine to here and I don’t know how to get free from it. I’m trying my best, but even when I call out what is obvious, when we call out the oppression, we are silenced and so I always feel alienated.

As a movement born in Uganda and Tanzania arrives in the United States, activists are drawing strength from lessons of earlier pipeline battles.

What did Congress intend with Clean Air Act?

The Supreme Court's decisions are insanely unpopular; we have to make that matter.

Some companies say they will cover abortion travel. Here’s what’s wrong with relying on their benevolence.

They say you can’t go home again, but the Supreme Court says otherwise. Peter Neil Carroll’s Before Roe offers a glimpse of “normal” from the bad old days.