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By Sophia Fox Sowell …or how conservatives always look to the darkest extremes just to score a dubious political point. The slippery slope of GOP politics. Politicians, usually to the…

In this unpredictable, seismic and in many ways scary presidential election year, it benefits us all to cast an eye back to the middle ages when We The People took…

By Professor Anna Tsing On The Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Perhaps you’ve heard of “mushroom fever,” the enthusiasm that comes over some people to get up before dawn…

By Adam Benforado Deputy Clinton Reynolds was sitting in his cruiser along Highway 34, southwest of Atlanta. It was a damp Thursday evening in late March. The cars would catch…

MASSACRE OF MORMONS AT HAUN’S HILL On Oct 27 1838, Missouri Governor Boggs authorizing the state militia to drive all Mormons from Missouri, 1873 illustration When will learn that fear and…

By David Niose If you were writing a political novel in which senior policymakers for the world’s leading economic and military power inexplicably refuse to accept undisputed scientific facts, most…