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Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.
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American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.
Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.
The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.
The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.
A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.
The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
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