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The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues.
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Those Impacted by Colonialism Speak Out on the US’s Legacy of Family Separation
The crying children at the border are the latest victims of the crime of Indigenous genocide that began in 1492.
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Tucson Skirts International Law in Refusing to Reinstate Mexican American Studies
Under international law, Mexican Americans have the right to ensure that their culture is not erased.
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Trump’s Act of State Terrorism Against Children
The horrors of fascism’s past have now travelled from the history books to modern times.
![Central American asylum seekers wait as US Border Patrol agents take them into custody on June 12, 2018 near McAllen, Texas. The families were then sent to a US Customs and Border Protection processing center for possible separation.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/06/GettyImages-975078484-400x300.jpg)
The War on Children Under Neoliberal Fascism
The cruel separation of children evokes memories of similar horrific practices in US history.
![Donald Trump speaks at campaign event at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, December 14, 2015.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/06/shutterstock_353101001-e1528810002192-400x300.jpg)
Henry A. Giroux: Trump’s Relentless Lies Demand We Make Truth-Telling Great Again
The Trump regime dismisses words, concepts and news sources that address crucial social problems.
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Striking Teachers Beat Back Neoliberalism’s War on Public Schools
Teachers are creating a new optics for a different future.
![Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright heads a delegation meeting with the president of Ukraine on June 16, 2017, in Kiev, Ukraine.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2018_0508gir_-400x300.jpg)
Switching Sides: Whitewashing History in the Age of Trump
The fight against fascism is part of a struggle over memory.
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Educated Hope in Dark Times: The Challenge of the Educator-Artist as a Public Intellectual
Pedagogies of repression further a modern-day pandemic of loneliness and alienation.
![Trump's culture of cruelty views violence as a sacred means for addressing social problems and organizing society.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/Henry-A.-Giroux-The-Culture-of-Cruelty-in-Trumps-America-400x300.jpg)
The Culture of Cruelty in Trump’s America
Trump's culture of cruelty views violence as a sacred means for addressing social problems and organizing society.
![The US may be on the verge of witnessing how democracy ends. We must fight the normalization of Trump and his actions.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/02/32585154503_5902c27487_o-400x300.jpg)
Combating Trump’s Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of “1984”
The US may be on the verge of witnessing how democracy ends. We must fight the normalization of Trump and his actions.