If the United Nations decides to amputate a part of Palestine in order to establish a Jewish state, no force on earth…
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I am baffled, as I was in 2016, as to why so many liberals are still shocked by Trump’s victory—and why, in…
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Robin D.G. Kelley is a distinguished professor and the Gary B. Nash endowed chair in U.S. history at the University of California,…
“This is definitely the most significant labor struggle of the 21st century”
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When Harvard’s administrators tell Professor West that they cannot bring him up for tenure because it’s “too risky” and he’s “too controversial,” they completely undermine the point of tenure: to protect his freedom to speak truth to power
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