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Does the affluent society seem like a dream?

As the world remembers the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War, all too often forgotten is the role of the Pentagon's most important launch-pad for this failed war: Okinawa.

How can a racialized “democracy” teach the world lessons about respect for the law when it violates the law within its borders?

Is there any correlation between bomb tonnage and political blowback?

To his friends, Oronto was so much more.

Forty years ago on April 30, 1975, the Vietnamese people were finally victorious in the long just struggle for national independence.

Keller is well known for being blind, but she also deserves to be heralded for her progressive social vision.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 speech still challenges us to overcome racism, militarism and extreme materialism.

Good stuff all around, and very hopeful . . . but it does beg the question: How did we get here?

If billionaires like Jamie Dimon can walk into the office of a US senator and mock her to her face, something is truly rotten in at the core of …