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Memphis segregationists feared the civil rights leader for the most interesting of reasons - a moral man can't be corrupted or hustled.

Sibel Edmonds is a former language specialist for the FBI, where she reported serious acts of security breaches and cover-ups - for which she was retaliated against and ultimately …

What if the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion were veterans lost on the yellow brick road home from war?

The old assumption that the United States would move inevitably in the direction of ever greater equality now appears strange, even unreal.

In that spirit, allow me to offer up my own devilu2019s dictionary of contempou00adrary American political terms.

Political-economic systems come and go over time, and the current American system is probably not the be-all and end-all of world development.

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.