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Ferguson Thanksgiving: A Former Slave Proposed the Holiday 55 Years Before Lincoln. Why His Version Matters Today
A grand jury's refusal to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson has crystallized ugly truths.
Privateers Make a Water Grab
Facing increasing opposition abroad, over the past several decades, global water privatizers have begun to see US cities as expansion markets.
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Show Up on Thanksgiving or Get Fired
Why can't unbridled consumerism take a breather on holidays?
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Thanksgiving and the Socialist Imaginary
Mainstream progressive politicians lack utopia, a vision of a fundamentally different society.
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A New Chapter for the Immigrant Rights Movement Begins
Under the new plan, it is estimated that about 5 million out of 11.5 million undocumented immigrants will receive temporary relief.
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Arab Americans: Confident and Concerned
This Arab American confidence in the prospects for the next generation stands in marked contrast to the attitudes of the American public at-large where only one-third are optimistic that …
Who Stands for Rural Americans?
The consequences of neoliberalism are clear.
Saving the Internet: How the Impossible Shifted to the Inevitable
Last spring, it may have seemed an impossible task for activists and the Internet itself to defend itself, but in fact, it has.
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Pedagogy of Rage: Teaching in the Ruins of Ferguson
Where are the teachers and the schools and the colleges and the teacher's unions?
Public Schools and Logic 101 for George Will
Public schools have an obligation to provide an education for our children. That means all of our children, including those with disabilities.