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Obama is at heart a calculating pragmatist, especially when it comes to advancing his own ambitions. Many of his broken promises are due to his distaste for defeat.

The American Revolution itself stands as a reminder of how the then most powerful empire in the world could be challenged.

The late revered farmer Masanobu Fukuoka explains how traditional farming practices can revive our planet's depleted soils.

No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that Americau2019s current racial caste system is its last.

The Mediterranean has become a hotbed of human trafficking and carnage resulting from desperate attempts by people from Africa and most particularly sub-Saharan and North Africa to flee famine, …

Institutional change, from co-ops to land trusts, and including municipal enterprise and state investing, challenge dominant corporate ideologies and help clear a path for new approaches to meaningful, larger-scale …

We're excited to bring you a new, exclusive series from groundbreaking economist and author Gar Alperovitz.

Howard Zinn: As the economic situation of the universities becomes more precarious and faculties shrink, it becomes easier to get rid of undesirables, whether political dissidents or just troublesome …

With the radical decline of organized labor, a new progressive politics must build new institutional foundations or remain in a defensive and declining posture.

Mathew Rothschild: And like John Lennon, Howard Zinn wasnu2019t afraid to call himself a dreamer.