Opinion
What’s the point of the Panama Papers?
May 19, 2016The one percent have so successfully taken over the U.S. tax code and manipulated it that they've hidden billions of dollars right here at home.
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Opium of the masses? Religion and 21st century socialism
May 18, 2016There cannot be many socialist movements in the world today that are avowedly, militantly atheist. Those days are over.
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Fifty years out of college and finally (almost) normal
May 17, 2016Over the weekend of June 2-5 I'll be attending my Yale Class of 1966 50th reunion in New Haven, Conn.
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Free speech, or safe spaces? Don’t make students choose
May 17, 2016We must challenge the problematic constructs in society that have driven young activists to seek sanctuary, and provide them with the room to create.
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“Measures of despair”: Chicago desperate for action on violence and poverty
May 16, 2016A poll just released depicts a city that is losing faith in its basic public institutions, from the police to the mayor's office.
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