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Op-Ed
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Swell Times for America’s Swollen Fortunes
Americau2019s political leaders took it upon themselves to start hacking away at the federal estate tax.
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12 Ways Obama Smacked Down the Right in His Inauguration Speech
President Barack Obama's second inaugural address was music to the ears of many progressives.
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A Time for “Sublime Madness“
It is only those who can retreat into the imagination who uncover the physical and psychological strength to resist.
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Henry A. Giroux | The New Extremism and Politics of Distraction in the Age of Austerity
Important issues like creeping authoritarianism are being buried in the fog of manufactured crises.
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A Second Inaugural, A Second Conspiracy
The Billionaire Class wonu2019t rest until theyu2019re assured that what happened today never happens again.
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Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama
MLK would spend his birthday preparing a massive, disruptive action at the Inauguration.
Dulling Down Dr. King’s Message
In death, King became a national icon but with his sharpest criticisms dulled down or forgotten.
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“A Mighty Stream”: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Faith Guided Him to a Commitment to Economic Justice
For King, his calling as a minister required a fundamental assessment of capital.
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President Obama’s Second Term: Symbolic or Ironic?
MLK's “dream” was never about electing an African-American president.
In the Shadow of the Wall: From Gaza to Arizona
More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, what have we learned about barriers that separate people?