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Fight The Power

With Your Wallet

  Between the budget showdown in May and the recent debt ceiling rift, politics in the U.S. have become messy. Ideological governance is at its most extreme the nation has seen in decades. We have a left Senate, a right House, a gang of Tea-Partiers threatening House Speaker Boehner's every attempt to engage in bipartisan decision-making, and a host of lazy Democrats who stayed home during the 2010 elections, but are now angry with President Obama for, in their words, cowaring to a Republican debt deal. Full story

Post Racial America or Post Blatantly-Racist America?

  We are living in less hostile times as far as race is concerned.  Less than 100 years-ago, those who bucked the Jim Crow system—blacks and whites—were subjected to ridicule, violence, and in some states even punishment by law. Full story

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