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Question: What is Hanukkah really all about?
December 7, 2015There's no mystery in understanding why Jews, and perhaps most peoples, celebrate a holiday of light at the time of the winter solstice.
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The legacy of Spain and the Lincoln Brigade
December 7, 2015When I think about Spain, I think about the people who taught me to fight for a different world, for a vision of a just society, a socialist society.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel must be impeached
December 5, 2015Rahm Emanuel has proven himself the most roughly drawn, one-dimensional of comic book villains, an insult to the city's intelligence and sustainability.
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Laquan McDonald killing exposes edifice of brutal oppression
December 3, 2015The veil is being lifted from an entire interdependent system of institutionalized racism and oppression and its ugly inner workings.
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Laquan McDonald killing underlines need to radically reconstruct criminal justice system
December 2, 2015Everyone pressing for justice understands that appropriate actions against obstructionist public officials need sustained public oversight and engagement every step of the way.
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