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A spinoff of the King Street Patriots Texas Tea Party, True the Vote aims to have 1 million poll watchers in place by November. 

The founder of Providence was the first to see that religious freedom, and separation of church and state, was intimately connected with political freedom.
 

The death of Trayvon Martin reveals the cost of criminalizing young men of color. Enough is enough.

Bernard Rapoport's death at the age of ninety-four has brought to a close one of the storied chapters in the history of American liberalism.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a superb, empathic account of life in a Mumbai undercity.

Rodric Braithwaite, Jonathan Steele and Artemy Kalinovsky analyze the forgotten history of Afghan communism and the Soviet occupation.

He began his career singing about cars and girls before moving on to empty factories and abandoned quarries—and now, with Wrecking Ball, the depredations of Wall Street.

The Supreme Court—as well as the Obama administration—upholds the right of the world’s biggest jailer to strip everyone who comes into its grasp.

On its fiftieth anniversary, the founding declaration of SDS echoes today in democracy movements around the world.

Don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s new crossword blog, Word Salad.