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The United States Has Been Enabling Torture for Decades
(Image: Troy Page; Adapted: mike.benedetti, Caleb Kimbrough) Marjorie Cohn – a law professor and past president of the National Lawyer's Guild – has assembled a compelling interdisciplinary …

Nada Bakri, Widow of Anthony Shadid, on Her Husband’s Life and Posthumous Memoir, “House of Stone”
TRANSCRIPT: JUAN GONZALEZ: Three weeks ago, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack while reporting on …

Black Politics and the Establishment: An Interview With Charles E. Cobb, Jr
Charles E. Cobb, Jr. is a distinguished journalist and former member of National Geographic magazine’s editorial staff. From 1962-1967, he served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent …

Tim Wise on White Resentment in a Multiracial Society
(Photo: Eric Allix Rogers / Flickr) Tim Wise: Yes, of course, although there is also a bit of a uniquely "American" twist. On the one hand, there …

How Empires Fall (Including the American One): A TomDispatch Interview With Jonathan Schell
When Jonathan Schell’s The Unconquerable World, a meditation on the history and power of nonviolent action, was published in 2003, the timing could not have been worse. Americans were …

Who Stole the American Dream in Broad Daylight?
(Image: Connecting the Dots Productions) Mark Karlin: What role did the book "Global Class War" (2006) play in your formulation of the film?

Beautiful Acts of Resistance
Just moments after performing a dramatic final death scene, Palestinian playwright Abdelfattah Abusrour was back on stage delivering an afterword that was no less intense. Speaking softly, Abusrour told …

Archaeologist, Black Feminist Unearths Contributions of African Diaspora, Everyday People
Whitney Battle-Baptiste. (Photo: whitneybattlebaptiste.wordpress.com) Every February is Black History Month, which presents many opportunities to explore and contextualize the broader, nuanced and less familiar aspects of what …

Author Walter Mosley on Writing Mystery Novels, Political Revelation, Racism and Pushing Obama
Today in a Black History Month special, we spend the hour with the award-winning author Walter Mosley, who many people were introduced to when Bill Clinton praised his book …

How Financial Crisis, Economic Inequality, Social Media, and More Brought Revolutions in 2011 and Changed Us Forever (2)
We're at an inflection point in history, a shift not just in our politics but our consciousness, says Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight economics editor, author and journalist. …