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The most disturbing aspect of the recent national melodrama over Senate Majority Leaders Trent Lott’s offensive declaration of retrospective support for the…
Paul Street
Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of more than ten books and numerous essays.
Street has taught U.S. history at numerous of Chicago-area colleges and universities. He was the Director of Research and Vice President for Research and Planning at the Chicago Urban League (from 2000 through 2005), where he published a highly influential grant-funded study: The Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Jobs and Community in Chicago, Illinois, and the Nation (October 2002).
What a Difference a Day Made More than thirteen months after the worst single foreign attack ever on American soil, one of…
Think back to a time when you were taken aback by the shameless hypocrisy of an authority figure in your community, school…
Let’s start with two elementary precepts relating to the proper role of the media in a democratic society. First, key media personalities…
Those who think the super-rich are smarter than the rest of us might want to take a look at the foreign policy…
As George W. Bush signals world history’s most lethal military machine to ready an indefinitely dated but seemingly inevitable assault on Iraq,…
The Overworked Work Harder The real outcome of the 2000 Presidential elections – a clear Gore victory if the votes had been…
Paul Street & Dennis A. Kass In an ominous 5-4 decision handed down on June 27, 2002, the Supreme Court made “standard”…
A few weeks ago, the verdict came in on John Walker Lindh, the 21-year old “American Taliban” who fought with the former…
The Dream Gone Mainstream In the eyes of many white Americans, there was more than a hint of dangerous radicalism in the…