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How Bad Slavery Was

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery.

Humans Aren’t As Special As We Once Thought

Kate Wong Scientific American
Darwin opined that differences between humans and other animals were a matter of degree. New findings show that a wide variety of other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens.

20 Years After Hurricane Katrina

Twenty years ago today, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared ashore. Democracy Now! speaks with Academy Award-nominated director, Traci A. Curry.

ICE Regrets Stopping This Informed Citizen

Constitutional auditor Robert Trudell exercised his rights to legally bypass an immigration checkpoint, sparking frustration from the immigration agents on the scene.

In a Berlin Bar

Rafaella Del Bourgo
Poet Rafaella Del Bourgo offers a quick intro to sexual politics, reminding us that sex is "a tune both familiar and strange."