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Mumia showed me the web of oppression threaded through my life, ensnaring me, and how to begin to hack away at those threads.

The Koch brothers hailed from a new generation of philanthropists, bent on using billions of dollars from their private foundations to alter the direction of US politics.

We have to learn how to imagine the future in terms that are not restricted to our own lifetimes.

We can write about the evils of inequality all we want, but unless we offer lasting remedies for them, our analysis must remain partial and open to valid criticism.

Todd Ashker details his efforts against solitary confinement at the infamous Pelican Bay State Prison in California.

The economic hit men system is fueled by something far more dangerous than a global conspiracy. It is driven by concepts that have become accepted as gospel.

The TPP looks far more in doubt than it ought to at this stage.

The murder of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in the winter of 2012 was a turning point.

This nation was founded upon terrorism, namely that of slavery, whose unspeakable degradations hardly ended with formal emancipation.

The war on terrorism has morphed into a new form of authoritarianism whose real enemy is not terrorism at all, but democracy itself.