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In this unpredictable, seismic and in many ways scary presidential election year, it benefits us all to cast an eye back to the middle ages when We The People took…

By Professor Anna Tsing On The Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Perhaps you’ve heard of “mushroom fever,” the enthusiasm that comes over some people to get up before dawn…

MASSACRE OF MORMONS AT HAUN’S HILL On Oct 27 1838, Missouri Governor Boggs authorizing the state militia to drive all Mormons from Missouri, 1873 illustration When will learn that fear and…

By David Niose If you were writing a political novel in which senior policymakers for the world’s leading economic and military power inexplicably refuse to accept undisputed scientific facts, most…

By Sophia Fox-Sowell The Confederate Flag in the American South is unraveling. Its threads are tattered, the color is fading—and yet, its supporters still believe that it looks as vibrant…

By Brandon L Garrett “There is no such thing as too big to jail,” then-Attorney General Eric Holder assured us last May in a stern video message.  I was then…

By Adam Benforado Deputy Clinton Reynolds was sitting in his cruiser along Highway 34, southwest of Atlanta. It was a damp Thursday evening in late March. The cars would catch…

BY NAOMI KLEIN author of The Shock Doctrine ‘…we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from a “thing-oriented” society to…