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US sends carriers to S China Sea during Chinese drills
China and the United States have accused each other of stoking tension in the strategic waterway at a time of…
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Image of Thomas Jefferson alongside Black descendant holds ‘a mirror’ to America
Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, wore the same sort of…
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James Baldwin Was Right All Along
America just needs to heed them. “There are days—this is one of them—when you wonder what your role is in…
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Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
On July 5, the crowds filling Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, did not get what they expected. MOYERS on Democracy…
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Judge temporarily blocks tell-all book by Trump’s niece
New York state Supreme Court Judge Hal B. Greenwald in Poughkeepsie, New York, issued an order requiring the niece, Mary Trump,…
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De-Militarizing the United States
At the Riverside Church in New York City, King linked the militarism of the Vietnam War; the racism of American…
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From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump’s phone calls alarm US officials
The calls caused former top Trump deputies — including national security advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, Defense Secretary James……
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How to stop being a bystander and stand up to racism and sexism
Who could have stopped that from happening? Who allowed it to happen? Jenna Price The Sydney Morning Herald The murder…
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Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag
The flag’s supporters resisted efforts to change it for decades, but rapid developments in recent weeks have changed dynamics on…
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Trump Is Trying to Remake the Military in His Own Ugly Image
It is not surprising that retired Army BGen. Jeet Heer The Nation Anthony Tata was nominated by Donald Trump as…
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Kosovo Indictment Proves Bill Clinton’s Serbian War Atrocities
In 1999, the Clinton administration launched a 78-day bombing campaign that killed up to 1500 civilians in Serbia and Kosovo…
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The Story Behind TIME’s ‘America Must Change’ Cover
The resulting 40-by-30-in. acrylic painting, of a little girl faced with both the injustice of today and America’s historical role…
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How the US and EU pressured South Africa to delay copyright reform
When South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sent a copyright reform back to the parliament this week, he raised constitutional concerns as…
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How Dangerous Is Police Work?
It was a remarkable statistic that I first saw in a tweet by conservative YouTuber Steven Crowder, tracked to a…
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Is America a ‘failing state’?
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a sense history had ended, and that the United States represented…
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France’s Macron accuses Turkey of playing ‘a dangerous game’ in Libya
Turkey has intervened decisively in recent weeks in Libya, providing air support, weapons and allied fighters from Syria to help the…
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