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50 Years Later, Rekindle the 'Spirit of Glassboro'
Norman Solomon
50 years after the Glassboro Summit, we should question the wisdom of leaders who seem averse to any kind of détente between the United States and Russia.
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| Charleena Lyles Was Killed by a Police Department Under a Consent Decree
Collier Meyerson
The untimely death of a 30-year-old woman demonstrates the obvious need for more scrutiny of police, not less.
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| Why Does the Far Right Hold a Near-Monopoly on Political Violence?
Joshua Holland
Studies show that most people across the political spectrum abhor it. So what might explain the disparity?
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| The Republic of Rogue Island
Tom Cutterham
Here's what one state's radical experiment after the American Revolution can tell us about democracy today.
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| On Writers, the Media, and the Corruptions of Power
Patrick Lawrence
Joel Whitney, whose book Finks is about the CIA's subversion of US culture, talks about the scars left by the Cold War.
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| Bill O'Reilly Is America's Best-Selling Historian
Andrew J. Bacevich
And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.
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| Will Last Year's Peace Treaty Survive, or Is the Past Prologue in Colombia?
Greg Grandin
An interview with historian Robert Karl on the country's violent demobilization.
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| The Senate GOP Isn't Fixing Health Care. It's Waging Class War.
Zoë Carpenter
A draft bill released Thursday offers tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the poor and the elderly.
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| The Lessons We Learned From Jon Ossoff's Defeat
Robert L. Borosage
The midterms will be much different, but Democrats need better candidates.
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| This Union Ironworker Has a Plan to Beat Paul Ryan
John Nichols
A construction worker takes on the speaker of the House--and sparks fly.
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New York Times columnist David Leonhardt shares a vision of a brighter future for Democrats. It is predicated, however, on meeting a difficult challenge — increasing voter participation among liberals who haven’t been voting. If liberals voted at the ... |
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