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Climate change is global-scale violence against places and species, as well as against human beings.

The United States grew out of the idea that it was common sense to launch a war to settle political differences.

Many historians regard the Paris Commune as the precedent for subsequent uprisings against the plutocracy and ruling elite.

There has been an outpouring of global solidarity for the Black movement in the US by Black people in other countries.

At the core of any viable democratic politics is the ability to question the assumptions central to an imagined democracy.

In his introduction to the newly published anthology of MLK's speeches and writings, Cornel West writes, “This book unearths a radical King that we can no longer sanitize.”

A journalist recalls her visit to Mexico during the time 43 students went missing in Iguala.

An excerpt from Lani Guinier's introduction to “The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America.”

Robert McChesney continues his argument for a press that does not represent the interests of the oligarchy.

By the time Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize award one year into his presidency, he had ordered more drone strikes than George W. Bush had authorized during his …