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Says editor Dan Wakefield, hIs writing “is done with such seemingly simple language and style that it sometimes seems shocking.”

The right celebrates Reagan as the cold war “victor.” American memorials tell a different story.

On socialism or the Middle East, Fred Halliday’s intellectual flexibility was one of his greatest strengths.

In Black Bazaar, characters vent and stumble over their shared obsession with the colonial past.

Even now, our understanding of that fraught moment is built on falsehoods and myths.

The 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, who died at 90 on October 21, embraced and inspired the struggle for peace and economic and social justice.

The realization that markets need government saved capitalism after World War II.

The wing-nuttery’s gaybaiting is not just a fringe phenomenon—it’s part of an old Republican tradition of macho posturing against Democrats.