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Learning to Claim Our Victories, or Why Fighting for Justice Is Like Surfing
Activists have never stopped working to make this a better world, and they offer us a kind of hope for our future that shouldn't be ignored.

The Presidential Race to the Bottom
Donald Trump's candidacy is swirling around the toilet bowl and headed toward that final flush.

“Obama Built the Structures for Trump”: A Terrifying Legacy of Mass Deportation
A highly militarized immigration enforcement apparatus is the frightening legacy of this Democratic presidency.

How Capitalism Fosters Bullying
Bullies are merely acting out in response to the norms and incentives of their militarized capitalist societies.

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William Rivers Pitt | Sodom, Gomorrah and Trump: The Evangelical Quandary
This is the chosen vessel of God?

Donald Trump and the Dangerous Rhetoric of Portraying People as Objects
The history of American political discourse is riddled with the "thingification" of people.

Voting Is One Thing, but Let’s Not Let Partisan Loyalties Numb Us to Injustice
The downward spiral of the Democratic Party can only be stopped if we have a genuinely democratic multiparty system.

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Tilting at Women

Trump’s Threat to the First Amendment
The National Press Club Institute of Journalism considers the damage the GOP nominee might do.

Is Trump’s Rise a Result of the US Declaring War on Institutions That Make Democracy Possible?
Henry Giroux critiques what he believes is a slide toward authoritarianism and other failings that led to the current political climate and rise of Donald Trump.