Who needs bread and circuses when you have the assortment of clowns and contortionists that are running for the White House? Truly, politics in America…
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When black progressives today think about the Civil War, they are often more struck by what didn’t happen than what did. Michelle Alexander’s much-lauded The…
Almost 44 million adults are estimated to have a mental illness in the United States, and the numbers seem to be increasing.1 While omega-3s and…
Forked Tongue: Obama’s ‘The State of the Union is Great’ Address Borrowing the oratorical framework of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union…
Prof. David Montgomery is a geomorphologist & environmentalist in the Earth and Space Sciences division at the University of Washington’s College of the Environment. He…
Donald Trump is an apparent fan of Adolf Hitler’s speeches. That stunning but not entirely surprising revelation comes from his ex-wife Ivana, who told [3] Vanity…
As Republican presidential candidates lined up to one-up each other about how they would fight Islamic terrorism, many mainstream pundits questioned the hysteria and took…
Prof. Norman Pollack is a professor emeritus of history at Michigan State University in East Lansing Michigan. He has a long history of engaging civil…
On Veterans Day, A Reminder of Our Shared Duty On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a keynote address at Riverside Church…
The deservedly-despised Trans Pacific Partnership is front and center in our discussion this week. Ellen talks with author and producer of the "Secret of Oz"…
Stuart Wexler has been regarded as one of the nation’s top researchers and investigators into domestic terrorism in America and radical religious activities. His groundbreaking…
On ‘Constitution and Citizenship Day,’ Dred Scott Decision Still Relevant On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document in Philadelphia—a…