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(Image: JR / Truthout) In researching this book, I ran across an astonishing piece of writing from our nation’s early years. It’s a fitting prologue for this …

The “credibility” gap has spread from the presidency to the entire political system.

It doesn't matter how enjoyable the products - there is something bigger beneath the family-friendly exterior.

When access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally obstructed, democracy itself is degraded.

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.

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 …

Racism today has been both reconfigured and made invisible with regard to its real victims.

The spectacle of terror and fear has developed a singular focus of communication and control.

We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. …