The co-author of an important new book talks about her research, the current crisis, and whether we can turn it into an opportunity.

On December 6, President Donald J. Trump sat in the Oval Office at the Resolute desk, surrounded by Dominionist worship leaders who laid their hands on him and commenced to pray. While most in the ...

It was the spring of 2018, and our small but relentless posse of pro-immigration reform House Republicans had had enough. Throughout the entire 115th Congress, we had asked Speaker Paul Ryan and other ...

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There is much to like about this proposed constitution, and in many ways, I believe it improves on the one we have. I therefore vote to endorse it. I admire both the proposed bill of rights and the ...

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In an 1822 letter to the American jurist and statesman W.T. Barry, James Madison wrote: “A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce ...

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America By Keisha N. Blain • Beacon Press • 2021 • 322 pages • $27.95 Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer By Kate Clifford Larson • ...