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By: Michael Harriot A migrant from Syria holds one of his children in a holding area after arriving at a rail station in Munich, Germany, and being detained by police Aug….
By Jason Hickel If you follow international news you will be accustomed to headlines announcing that world leaders have succeeded in cutting global poverty in half over the past couple of decades….
By Mama Marimba Ani A group of European scavengers, many of whom had been imprisoned or homeless in England, arrived in New England in 1620. They first lived on Turtle…
By Drew Gilpin Faust faust_1-121715.jpg Peter Foley/epa/CorbisBill Clinton and John Hope Franklin discussing race relations in America at the New York Public Library, October 2005 The historian John Hope…
By John Nichols Muslim_American_Flag_rtr_img Samr Ebrahim with his granddaughter Zrahaa Mohammed at a park in Dearborn, Michigan, April 9, 2003. (Reuters / Rebecca Cook) Followers of Islam have lived…
By Jeet Heer Just a year a so ago, the phrase “identity politics” had a musty and arcane air to it, redolent as it was of early 1990s campus battles…
By Tom Phillips For the first time since records began black and mixed race people form the majority of Brazil’s population, the country’s latest census has confirmed. Preliminary results from…
By Katharine Whittemore One of the most powerful magazine articles I’ve ever read is “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, in the June 2014 issue of The Atlantic. Its…
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet In a highly anticipated speech, Sen. Bernie Sanders passionately detailed what being a democratic socialist means to him and would mean for Americans if elected…
By Daniel Robelo / AlterNet This week Hillary Clinton again revealed a blind spot for the drug war and a deafness of tone towards Latino issues. She decided to brag…
By Phillip Smith / AlterNet Beginning in 2012, four states and the District of Columbia have voted to legalize marijuana. By this time next year, that number could well double,…