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The Truth About American Muslims

The Truth About American Muslims The Truth About American Muslims

People like Donald Trump are engaging in the kind of reckless demagoguery that only encourages discrimination and violence against our Muslim neighbors.

Dec 8, 2015 / Joshua Holland

Donald Trump’s Bottomless Bottom

Donald Trump’s Bottomless Bottom Donald Trump’s Bottomless Bottom

The GOP front-runner is tapping into a brutal xenophobia that’s at once un-American and uniquely American.

Dec 8, 2015 / Joan Walsh

Tom Tomorrow toon

Close All the Mosques! Close All the Mosques!

And other practical solutions to gun violence.

Dec 8, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow

Interned Japanese American Sammy Kimura (Telly Leung) and camp nurse Hannah Campbell (Katie Rose Clarke) perform in Allegiance.

Pacific Overtures on Broadway Pacific Overtures on Broadway

At its best, the Japanese-internment musical Allegiance seethes with righteous anger beneath its perkiness and platitudes.

Dec 7, 2015 / Alisa Solomon

Rahm Emanuel

Laquan McDonald and the Politics of Black Athletes Laquan McDonald and the Politics of Black Athletes

Former Chicago Bull and two-time NBA champion Craig Hodges reflects on the killing of Laquan McDonald and the role of black athletes today.

Dec 7, 2015 / Dave Zirin

Citizens United protest

‘It’s Viral!’ The Movement to Overturn ‘Citizens United’ Swamps the Internet ‘It’s Viral!’ The Movement to Overturn ‘Citizens United’ Swamps the Internet

Watch the video that was this week’s winner in the Democracy For All Video Challenge.

Dec 7, 2015 / The Nation

Dollar General Takes Its Case Against Indigenous Sovereignty to the Supreme Court

Dollar General Takes Its Case Against Indigenous Sovereignty to the Supreme Court Dollar General Takes Its Case Against Indigenous Sovereignty to the Supreme Court

Will Indian nations lose one of the remaining paths for bringing justice to those who commit wrongs on their land?  

Dec 7, 2015 / Andrew Bard Epstein

The New York ‘Daily News’ Takes On the NRA

The New York ‘Daily News’ Takes On the NRA The New York ‘Daily News’ Takes On the NRA

Its “God Isn’t Fixing This” headline was part of a classic front-page challenge to powerful interests and political cowards.

Dec 6, 2015 / John Nichols

December 6, 1865: The 13th Amendment, Prohibiting Slavery, Is Ratified

December 6, 1865: The 13th Amendment, Prohibiting Slavery, Is Ratified December 6, 1865: The 13th Amendment, Prohibiting Slavery, Is Ratified

“In our country the bitter fruits of national injustice and oppression were apparent at an early day.”

Dec 6, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

December 5, 1933: Prohibition Ends

December 5, 1933: Prohibition Ends December 5, 1933: Prohibition Ends

“We shall continue to fight for rigid control and for the reeducation of the country in the direction of temperance.”

Dec 5, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

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