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Despite a Century of Women’s Rights Progress, Hillary Clinton Still Faces...

It has been 100 years since the voters of Montana elected Jeannette Rankin as the first woman in Congress and Margaret Sanger opened the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn (1916) Continue...

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Record Number of Women May Serve in Senate

Americans might not only elect their first woman president in November; they might also install a record number of women in the 100-member Senate. Continue reading The post Record Number of Women May...

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Steve Mnuchin: Evictor, Forecloser and Our New Treasury Secretary

Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump criticized Wall Street bankers for their excessive political influence and attacked hedge-fund managers for getting away with “murder” under the...

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Preparing for President Trump

Many Americans would not be surprised if on Jan. 20 Vladimir Putin administers the oath of office to Donald Trump, the Ku Klux Klan youth choir regales the inaugural crowd with a stirring rendition of...

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What Anti-Trump Protesters Can Learn from the Suffragettes

Many Americans will be traveling to Washington, DC next week to protest against Donald Trump on his inauguration day. Many will continue to demonstrate outside the White House after he takes office....

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Fifty Years After King’s Famous Anti-War Speech, America Again Debates Guns...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of Rev. Martin Luther King’s most important speeches — an address at the prestigious Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967 in which he publicly...

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Jackie Robinson Should Remind Us of the Importance of Political Protest

Robinson’s achievement was a political victory brought about by a social activism movement populated by the Negro press, politicians, civil rights groups and many others. Continue reading The post...

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What’s Changed in the 50 Years Since the Supreme Court Ended Interracial...

Should we allow states to decide whether black Americans may marry white Americans? Today, such an idea seems absurd. Most Americans believe that states shouldn't be permitted to trample on the basic...

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Martin Luther King’s Fight for Workers’ Rights

Most Americans today know that Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, but few know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers,...

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Where Are All the Monuments to the Progressive Americans?

The current controversy over whether to dismantle statues of some prominent Confederate figures is a battle over whom we admire and consider as heroes. It is also a battle over who has power to shape...

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Despite a Century of Women’s Rights Progress, Hillary Clinton Still Faces...

It has been 100 years since the voters of Montana elected Jeannette Rankin as the first woman in Congress and Margaret Sanger opened the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn (1916) Continue...

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Record Number of Women May Serve in Senate

Americans might not only elect their first woman president in November; they might also install a record number of women in the 100-member Senate. Continue reading The post Record Number of Women May...

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Steve Mnuchin: Evictor, Forecloser and Our New Treasury Secretary

Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump criticized Wall Street bankers for their excessive political influence and attacked hedge-fund managers for getting away with “murder” under the...

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Preparing for President Trump

Many Americans would not be surprised if on Jan. 20 Vladimir Putin administers the oath of office to Donald Trump, the Ku Klux Klan youth choir regales the inaugural crowd with a stirring rendition of...

View Article

What Anti-Trump Protesters Can Learn from the Suffragettes

Many Americans will be traveling to Washington, DC next week to protest against Donald Trump on his inauguration day. Many will continue to demonstrate outside the White House after he takes office....

View Article


Fifty Years After King’s Famous Anti-War Speech, America Again Debates Guns...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of Rev. Martin Luther King’s most important speeches — an address at the prestigious Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967 in which he publicly...

View Article

Jackie Robinson Should Remind Us of the Importance of Political Protest

Robinson’s achievement was a political victory brought about by a social activism movement populated by the Negro press, politicians, civil rights groups and many others. Continue reading The post...

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What’s Changed in the 50 Years Since the Supreme Court Ended Interracial...

Should we allow states to decide whether black Americans may marry white Americans? Today, such an idea seems absurd. Most Americans believe that states shouldn't be permitted to trample on the basic...

View Article

Martin Luther King’s Fight for Workers’ Rights

Most Americans today know that Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, but few know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers,...

View Article

Where Are All the Monuments to the Progressive Americans?

The current controversy over whether to dismantle statues of some prominent Confederate figures is a battle over whom we admire and consider as heroes. It is also a battle over who has power to shape...

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