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Author Catriona Rainsford ran away with the circus in Mexico, living and performing with an itinerant, fluid group of unicycle riding jugglers and fire

Was the near meltdown of our economy at the end of the Bush administration just a prelude to a more crushing collapse? Thom Hartmann says yes! Read an excerpt …

There is nothing idealized about the difference between a society whose arrangements serve all its citizens and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.

Solomon Northup's memoir offers a vivid, horrifying account of the abominable practice of slavery.

My father always said, “Malala will be free as a bird.” I dreamed of going to the top of Mount Elum like Alexander the Great to touch Jupiter and …

In an excerpt from his book

This excerpt from The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy shows a president whose laudable public ambition and achievements were undercut by despicable …

In this excerpt, Noam Chomsky speaks with Free Speech Radio News about media control, fear, indoctrination and the importance of solidarity.

Heroics in wars abroad are praised by politicians and generals, but the returning wounded are largely shunted aside, only infrequently covered by the press or discussed by government officials. …

An excerpt from Ann Jones's new book, ‘They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars - The Untold Story.’