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By Amitabh Pal, June 2013 Issue

Wisdom from the Author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.read more


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Eduardo Galeano

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My final guest on Progressive Radio is the great Latin American writer, Eduardo Galeano, author most recently of "Children of the Days."

"The half-hour interviews on Progressive Radio ceased production at the end of May, 2013."read more

“I’m Very Comfortable as a Hybridized Mongrel” »

By Amitabh Pal, May 2013 Issue

Wisdom from the Author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.read more


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Why I Write »

By Eduardo Galeano, May 12, 2013

I try to say more with less, looking for words better than the wisest silence—naked, naked words free of rhetorical clothes.read more


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Gar Alperovitz

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My guest this week is Gar Alperovitz, author of "What Then Must We Do?"read more

"The Color Purple" Continues to Inspire »

By Emily Bernard, April 23, 2013

This month marks the 30th anniversary of Alice Walker’s winning of the Pulitzer Prize for “The Color Purple,” the first for a novel by a black woman.read more


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Dean Strang

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My guest today is Dean Strang, author of "Worse than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror."read more

From Our Archives: The Iron Lady »

By Erik Lorenzsonn, April 9, 2013

Milton Mayer, when writing “This England,” did not mince words when it came to assessing the prime minister.read more


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Arundhati Roy

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Ruth Conniff, subbing in for Matt Rothschild, interviews Arundhati Roy this week.read more

How Mark Twain’s Politics are Obscured in His Museum »

By Amitabh Pal, April 5, 2013

Twain’s anti-militarist stances are scarcely visible in Hannibal.read more


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Barbara Ransby

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My guest this week is Professor Barbara Ransby, author of "Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson."read more

From Our Archives: Affirmative Action »

By Erik Lorenzsonn, March 25, 2013

The passages from “Color-Conscious, Colorblind” by G.W. Foster, Jr. from our March 1966 issue, still resonate strongly when put in the context of recent challenges to affirmative action.read more


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From Our Archives: A Woman On the Senate Floor »

By Erik Lorenzsonn, March 23, 2013

Today, there are twenty women in the U.S. Senate, the most in our country's history. But in 1950, there was only one — Margaret Chase Smith.read more


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From Our Archives: Institutional Bigotry »

By Erik Lorenzsonn, March 20, 2013

The first eBook in our Hidden History series is available for purchase, and a second is on its way!read more


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Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick

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My guests this week are Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, who brought you "The Untold History of the United States."read more

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