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Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far from historically accurate.

A new generation of young public intellectuals offer us both critique and hope.

Rebecca Solnit: To be passive in the face of disappointment is to ensure that injustice prevails.

America's Stolen Narrative explores the 1968 Nixon campaign efforts to prevent peace in Vietnam in order to help him narrowly be elected president.

The new understandings that the Internet increasingly underscores are moral wild cards.

Richard Wolff makes the compelling argument that modern capitalism has undermined democracy, replacing it with a plutocracy.

In this installment of America Beyond Capitalism, Gar Alperovitz considers the changes in technology and social organization in the US from 1790 to the present.

The various present impediments to progressive reform are likely to foster a radicalized politics, a twenty-first century populism that promises individual fulfillment in the context of community.

Although many will dispute his exclusion of other forms of aggression as violence, few will argue that Timothy Leary's assertion is more valid than ever now: Violence is killing …

Although there is dispute about the precise dimensions of the problem, prudence alone suggests the importance of confronting basic ecological limits.