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Op-Ed
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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?
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What a Second-Term Obama Can Learn From FDR
In essence, what FDR offered the American people was a new vision for the future.
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The Trillion Dollar Coin: A Debt Solution for the People
We the people need to take back the power to issue our own money, and we can't do it with nickels and dimes.
King: I Have a Dream. Obama: I Have a Drone.
Obama has not ignored King's anti-war legacy. On the contrary, the president has gone out of his way to distort and belittle it.