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The musician’s posthumous memoir, The Last Holiday, is as rich and ambiguous as his declaration that “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.”

Mark Jordan and Jay Michaelson seek hope for gay religious practice in heretical churches and the Hebrew Bible.

The brash webzine +972 is challenging a political and media culture that has moved steadily to the right.

A military-first policy on a destabilizing planet.

With some of the highest foreclosure rates in the country, the Southern city is fertile ground for the growing Occupy movement. 

An increasing number of local coalitions are teaming up to oppose the controversial immigration enforcement program.

Randall Kennedy is fascinated by a paradox: the color line's persistence and its seeming implosion.

An activist ahead of his time, Richard L. Grossman, a community organizer, galvanized work on a variety of progressive causes during his remarkable four-decade career.

What’s the best way to deal with contract concessions demanded by the big HMO, labor-management “partnership” or rank-and-file militancy?

That's what the Obama administration is arguing for, in a crucial case now before the Supreme Court.