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Liberal democrats and intellectuals help build a broad movement, but they are now a hindrance to single-party rule and are being crushed.

In the battle over Mexican American Studies in Tucson, there are three things people need to know

In the story of the recent death of Adnan Latif, the young Yemeni at Guantanamo whose death was declared a suicide, details are not adding up.

As violence and mayhem have become the main source of entertainment for youth today, we have become a nation that is literally killing itself day by day.

An attack like this new deadly assault would have been unimaginable at my school, not unimaginable like it was in Newtown until yesterday but unimaginable, period.

Why not take a page from the

If the United States is to prevent its slide into a deeply violent and anti-democratic state, it will, among other things, be required fundamentally to rethink the role of …

My fervent hope is that out of tragedy comes revelation.

With over 350,000 Virginians disenfranchised due to felonies, most of them African-Americans, this case is one worth following.