(Jackie Robinson, the subject of the movie 42, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1949). I am not a person who romanticizes Jim Crow. Separate but equal was never equal, and activists were right to upend that system of apartheid. But everything comes at a price and the price Jackie Robinson paid, at […]

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(James Hansen quit NASA to mount a movement against carbon emissions: Fox News.) The annual Ridenhour Prizes in Washington, D.C., awarded by the Fertel Foundation and the Nation Institute, last week celebrated 10 years of honoring whistleblowers, advocates, writers, and filmmakers who expose injustice and uncover corruption, often at great personal cost. Each year I […]

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As he proved in the 2012 Presidential debates, Rick Perry has a hard time following a thought to its logical conclusion. He could remember the first two federal departments he wanted to kill but not the third. He can warn his “fellow Texans” about the fiscal and moral damage that would be caused by the […]

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Editor’s Note: In April, the credibility of economic austerity, which has incited rioting in Europe, took a hit when a graduate student from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst found a coding error in a 2010 research paper published by Harvard professors Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart. Since the 2010 release of that paper, which argued that […]

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Thursday saw the official opening of the George W. Bush presidential library. It was a day to remember the Iraq War, tax cuts for the 1 percent, a failed attempt to privatize Social Security, and an enormous giveaway to pharmaceutical companies as well as endless reassurances that America will stay the course, whatever that meant. […]

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