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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 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 Nick Turse Leaders pose for a photo around US Army Gen. David Rodriguez (front, center), US Army Africa Command commander, June 26, 2013, during Exercise Western Accord 2013 in…

By Libero Della Piana   Libero Della Piana As a first-year student at Brown University, twenty-five years ago, I was detained by campus security for trespassing. In my own dorm….

By Laila Lalami Flowers are put in a window shattered by a bullet as Paris mourns the victims of a terrorist attack. (Photo: AP/Peter Dejong) What happened in Paris on…

Denis Balibouse / Reuters By Conor Friedersdorf As the terrorist attack against Paris unfolded Friday, a moment that Americans experienced in the strange semi-togetherness of social media, something prompted the…

By Christina Cauterucci Students staged a sit-in outside the president’s office in Healy Hall at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. At the University of Missouri, students have ousted their president…

By John Nichols Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders waves as he marches with supporters in the Labor Day parade. (AP Photo / Jim Cole) Samuel Gompers, the immigrant cigar…

By Joshua Holland The New York City Police Academy’s graduation ceremony. (Reuters / Carlo Allegri) Race dominated the coverage of the 2014 shooting of John Crawford. Crawford was a young…