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MLK: More radical than you think
In the five decades since King’s death, he has been turned into an icon, a national holiday in his name established. But in the process, the radical social activist has been transformed…
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Assessing race relations under the Trump administration
Just under half of all Americans say race relations in the United States are worse than they were a year ago, and few are optimistic race relations will improve in the year ahead,…
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Scott Pruitt’s agency for pillaging the environment
Last week it was Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt’s turn to provide yet another example of the ethical shabbiness that prevails within the Trump machine.…
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The United States: Total war
The appointment of John Bolton as Donald Trump's national security adviser has just turned U.S. foreign policy dangerous. His appointment, along with that of Mike Pompeo as secretary of…
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When MLK was killed, he was in Memphis fighting for economic justice
It was a call for help from activists that took the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in March 1968. Days later he would be fatally shot by James Earl Ray on the balcony of the…
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Dollars for decency
Laura Ingraham, Fox News’s queen of snark, tweeted that David Hogg – a 17-year-old who survived the mass shooting in Parkland, “whines about” being rejected by four universities he…
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Becerra sues Trump administration for adding citizenship question on 2020 Census
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau questionnaire.…
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A Bolt from the past
As National Security Adviser, John Bolton on his own has no power to, for instance, start a war. But Trump does, and he has threatened to do so often. But Bolton will be a multiplier of…
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The cruelty of Donald Trump
The last two weeks have given clear support to the thesis that a hot head, a cold heart, and a stunning capacity for lying is at the core of Donald Trump, (awful) president and (worse)…
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Donald Trump’s ideological purge
It is worth clarifying that when we talk about ideologies, it is not to emphasize major philosophical differences between Trump and those he fires, but to refer to each person's vision…
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