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Six recent clashes and conflicts on a planet heading into energy overdrive.

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Joe Hill, Joe Pa, Tebow and Wee Brains.

The three top hot spots of potential conflict in the coming Geo-Energy Era.

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.

In a momentous strategic shift, President Obama has begun a military buildup in East Asia in a foolish attempt to intimidate China. It will bring blowback, and a greater risk of war.

Anti-sweatshop activists are embracing Alta Gracia, a company that is going head-to-head with brands like Nike to sell socially responsible clothing on college campuses.

The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.

Can Washington move from Pacific power to Pacific partner?

Too many Americans have fallen prey to narratives that erase the role of slavery in the war’s origins and legacy.