To Imagine Is Human: An Evolutionary History

Andrey Vyshedskiy The Conversation
Imagination involves creating a mental image of something that is not present. Imagination is one of the key abilities that make us human. But where did it come from?

Abraham Lincoln Is a Hero of the Left

Matthew E. Stanley Jacobin
From Karl Marx to Eugene Debs to 1930s American Communists, leftists have regarded Lincoln as a prolabor hero who played a crucial role in vanquishing chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today as part of the great radical democratic tradition.

Putin’s Mein Kampf: An Invasion Foretold

Greg Palast BuzzFlash
How can too many of my fellow progressives, who marched against Bush’s “preemptive” war in Iraq, now find preemptive war by Putin justified by “NATO provocation”?