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Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
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The American novelist Theodore Dreiser recognized that “only the mass can get America out of the mess,” something that was true in 1941 and arguably even truer today in 2013.
The American novelist reflected on double standards for the poor and rich, and crafted a vigorous argument against U.S. engagement in World War II that speaks clearly to America's failed military ventures of the last decade.
Unlike his fiction, Dreiser’s political prose is less well known. But today's conditions of corruption and inequality again, as in his time, demand us to be “radically American”: a term that Dreiser used to describe himself.
Should the “best amongst the poor” be grateful for meager scraps? Hell no, said Wilde, whose unique anarchist, non-authoritarian version of socialism still resonates today.
On the fiftieth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, a new look at her populist progressive attitudes that included rooting for "the individual as opposed to the corporation."
On Bastille Day, some parallels between the Occupy Movement and the French Revolution.
While the aims and parameters of the American Revolution and Occupy Wall Street do not align entirely, there are some striking parallels.
Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Spain, today's anti-abortionist movements are feeding one another—while also driving a growing counter-movement.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Spain, today's anti-abortionist movements are feeding one another—while also driving a growing counter-movement.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.
Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.