Truthout
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Malcolm X Predicted the Progression of Racism in the United States
This excerpt revisits a landmark law that was supposed to end racism and the outspoken activist who predicted it would not.
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None of the Bankers Think Hillary Clinton Believes Her Populism, a Financial Journalist Wrote
A puzzling and contradictory microclimate of virtue surrounds Hillary Clinton.
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In Cowboy Capitalism, High Technology Worsens Economic Inequities
How should technology best be deployed to serve human needs? Never has the need for such a debate been greater.
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We Need to Consciously Spark, Amplify and Harness Mass Protest
Uprising can be a craft, and that this craft can change our world.
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Fear of ISIS Used to Justify Continued Military Intervention in Middle East
Why was the US public willing to tolerate new US war-making in Iraq and Syria in 2014-2015, after having opposed it in 2013?
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Kleptorenumeration: When the Highest-Paid Jobs Cause the Most Harm
There is an inverse relationship between utility and reward.
How a History Teacher and Mumia Abu-Jamal Inspired a Political Coming of Age
Mumia showed me the web of oppression threaded through my life, ensnaring me, and how to begin to hack away at those threads.
The Dark Money of the Koch Brothers Is the Tip of a Fully Integrated Network
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.
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Black Liberation: The Ghosts of the Past, the Potential of the Future
We have to learn how to imagine the future in terms that are not restricted to our own lifetimes.
Inequality Casts a Long Shadow
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.