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The Politics of Fat: We Have to Keep Struggling to Liberate Ourselves from Self-Hatred

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 11:00
“We claimed the agency, we granted ourselves the authority. But we never stopped worrying about how our asses looked in our jeans.â€

Corporate Cash Streams Into Ohio to Unseat Senator Sherrod Brown

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 11:00
Ohio will be a battleground come November, but the big money groups are spending lavishly now in hopes of unseating the Senate's best economic populist.

Deciphering Right-Wing Code: What Conservatives Are Really Saying When They Seem to Spew Nonsense

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 11:00
Did Rick Santorum just declare the next right-wing crusade?

Understanding the Right's Fear of Sex: How America's Absurd Oral Sex and Sodomy Laws Were Overturned

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 10:00
After Lawrence v. Texas, the mere mention of “morality†was no longer enough to deny basic constitutional privacy rights.

Are Whites Really Physically Afraid of Black Men?

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 10:00
Mythical black men are convenient scapegoats in our society. But it is the oppressed, rather than the oppressor, who has reason to fear.

Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 10:00
Forty years ago there was deep concern that the population was breaking free of apathy and obedience. Since then, many measures have been taken to restore discipline.

Fighting for Indigenous Rights Over Corporate Greed in the Niger Delta

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 10:00
Emem Okon is one of the women activists whose work has been central to repairing the divisions that corporate and governmental repression have wrought in the Niger Delta.