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The Liberal Media Strikes Again
If I hear one more person talk about the "liberal media" in America, I will probably vomit on them.
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Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy
Counterpublic spheres and modes of resistance that we once did not think young people could mount have erupted in a rush of emotional and political expressions.
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America’s Culture of Cruelty
Rather than being unspoken and unseen, violence in American life has become both visible in its pervasiveness and normalized as a central feature of dominant and popular culture.
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Does “Democracy” Still Mean Anything? (And in Case It Does, What Is It?)
It is a possibility – nay, a likelihood - that the link between public agenda and private worries, the very hub of the democratic process, has been broken.
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In the Twilight of the Social State: Rethinking Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History
We no longer live in an age in which history's "winged messengers" bear witness to the suffering of millions.
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Incoming GOP House Chairs Plan to Investigate Climate Scientists, Probe Muslim “Radicalization,” Repeal Healthcare Reform
When the 112th Congress is sworn in Wednesday, Republicans will hold a newfound edge in the House after four years in the minority.
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Solutions: Making Government Work
Truthout's "Solutions: Making Government Work" editor and long-time researcher, author and government watchdog Dina Rasor. Click to visit the "Solutions: Making Government Work" archive. The Solutions …
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Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse of Democratic Formative Culture
We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and …
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Eleven Ways to Rebuild Our Country
Alexander Hamilton’s strategic proposals for American manufacturing built the greatest industrial powerhouse the world had ever seen -- before they were abandoned.
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Farewell Mon Amour: Prospects on Democracy’s Electoral Defeat
We have become a country in which democracy is no longer a viable dream; rather, it is a living nightmare haunting those who now control the reins of financial …