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Most US citizens' knowledge about Native Americans is inaccurate, distorted or limited to elementary-school textbooks and spaghetti westerns.

A militaristic empire must inspire people to commit violence. It must reward the most extreme forms of bullying.

“My motto is: Always get even. When someone screws you, get them back in spades.”

It often takes little to change the balance of power between the dominating and the dominated.

It is only the urgency of youth that can set the pace and the tone of what is to come.

By 1969 our artists and revolutionaries all drew strength from the momentum of the mass movement for Black freedom.

I believe that Trump's candidacy offers the possibility for a new discourse of hope, of sustained criticism.

When politicians rush to demonize Islam and lump all Muslims with terrorists, it falls to a few “go-to” Muslim public intellectuals to try to talk sense into the US.

Saudi women are still waiting for a tipping point, forcing the government to finally grant them this most basic of rights.

Anarchists overwhelmingly viewed the New Deal, and more generally the rise of the Keynesian welfare state, as a sophisticated form of co-optation.