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Prison labor as the past—and future—of American “free-market” capitalism.

Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

How can Occupy activists build a foundation for long-term change?

A letter of thanks to Mohammed Bouazizi, the young man whose death set off a year of revolutions.

The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a giant of the civil rights movement known for his decades of work in support of desegregation, died Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama.

Ongoing nonviolent protests in front of the White House are urging President Obama to stop a prospective 1,700-mile-long tar-sands pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

The Midlands poet Roy Fisher has never aspired to a readership. All the more reason to welcome his Selected Poems.

Jeff Biggers on student protests in Arizona, John Nichols on Canada's New Democratic Party, and Kate Murphy on FAIR's twenty-fifth anniversary.

Why is Haley Barbour so eager to turn Mississippi into a civil rights tourist attraction?