a decisive struggle for our future

Supreme Court—the progress toward equalitarianism and a multicultural society symbolized by the election of America’s first African-American president, Barack Obama. ... This is a poor position from which to defend, much less further promote, America’s progressive domestic legacy. . ..

border battle

In recent decades, historians of United States have revealed and explored the sins of American imperialism, recounting in detail Washington's interventions Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Middle East. ..

in colombia, civil society fights for peace

Candidate at the Institute of the Americas, UCL. Her area of research is campesino agriculture and agroecology in Colombia, with a focus on the Zonas de Reserva Campesina (Peasant Reserve Zones). . Verónica Ramírez Montenegro is a political scientist and sociologist, currently working as a doctoral..

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joe biden and the flawed violence against women act, revisited

The 1994 crime bill, did not create America's ever-expanding population the country was already well on its way to the current crisis of mass incarceration. ... In interview for her book, The First Civil Right How Liberals Built Prison America, Naomi Murakawa discussed how Biden used the..

the difficult road to defense

In that context, with huge numbers of warheads backing up his threats, and no U.S defense to blunt attack, Putin seems to have assumed that his threats, even of limited missile strikes, would be credible, and that U.S would stand down in crisis or conflict, and not be willing to risk the cost of coming to..

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