U.S. Imperialism
David Barton, a self-styled Christian historian who claims to debunk left-wing myths about America, is sure of it: If you studied the Founding Fathers like he has, you would
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August 27, 2012 // 0 Comments
Chris Hedges, a former New York Times reporter, has become perhaps the foremost media scribe and most prolific advocate of a need for revolutionary change in our current
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August 23, 2012 // 0 Comments
I’ve been watching and thinking about Gabby Douglas, the teenage heroine of the London Olympics. Or so I view her. I was thinking of Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou
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August 20, 2012 // 0 Comments
It is apparent that the nation of Ecuador will now be in the frame for what American foreign policy elites like to call, in their dainty and delicate language, “the path of
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August 20, 2012 // 0 Comments
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s voucher program to privatize public education has come under fire recently for spending state tax dollars to teach Bible-based curriculum. An
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August 17, 2012 // 0 Comments
“Yesterday, someone told me I should have ended this workshop on a high note. I thought about it. How could I? “asked Kelli Mosteller as she was conducting the
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August 16, 2012 // 0 Comments
Once in a while a book comes along that is transformative. Murder State, by Brendan Lindsay, is such a book. Recently released by University of Nebraska Press, Murder State
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August 10, 2012 // 0 Comments
Following many protests and support from grassroots activists to protect the privacy of their Coming of Age ceremony, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe was allowed to hold its
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August 9, 2012 // 0 Comments
What Americans just don’t get is that most people see history differently than they do. In order to break this down, every semester I show Robert Wuhl’s HBO special
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July 31, 2012 // 0 Comments
Almost every year, for the week of the Fourth of July, my family makes the twelve-hour drive from their homes in Michigan to what they call their “farm.” The land has
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July 21, 2012 // 0 Comments