I have been reading Joseph Roth at a plastic table in front of a bar in the Plaza Mayor of a small town in Extremadura whose ...

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Where is today’s public discussion on how much the U.S. economy will have to pay to rebuild an even vaster ...

In 1965, the United States took a decisive step toward democracy with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the ...

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A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the US-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the ...

A.M. Gittlitz is an organizer, writer and the author of I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism. His latest work, Metropolitans: New ...

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them.  You can crush them by ignoring them.  By refusing to think, refusing to ...

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Now tumbling down the hill of time in an avalanche of emotion is the first anniversary of Max’s death. It’s been a year of immeasurable loss, bottomless ...

The Common Root of Our Multiple Crises The world is confronted by a boggling array of crises, testing the limits of human comprehension, let alone hope.