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Obama addresses terrorism, others must too

December 8, 2015 By Sam Webb

In the best moment of the speech, he responded forcefully to his Republican adversaries who are poisoning the atmosphere with anti-Islam and anti-immigrant vitriol and hatred.

Question: What is Hanukkah really all about?

December 7, 2015 By Ari Goldman

There's no mystery in understanding why Jews, and perhaps most peoples, celebrate a holiday of light at the time of the winter solstice.

The legacy of Spain and the Lincoln Brigade

December 7, 2015 By David Bacon

When 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.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel must be impeached

December 5, 2015 By Becky Sarwate

Rahm Emanuel has proven himself the most roughly drawn, one-dimensional of comic book villains, an insult to the city's intelligence and sustainability.

Laquan McDonald killing exposes edifice of brutal oppression

December 3, 2015 By John Bachtell

The veil is being lifted from an entire interdependent system of institutionalized racism and oppression and its ugly inner workings.