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A major history of American liberalism and the key personalities behind the movement Why is it that nearly every liberal initiative since the end of the New Deal-whether busing, urban development, affirmative action, welfare, gun control, or Roe v...

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Why does Bruce Springsteen mean so much to so many people? Apart from Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, no contemporary popular musician has had the cultural impact that Bruce Springsteen has on America. Since he was appointed in the late 1970s as ...

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Widely acclaimed and hotly contested, veteran journalist Eric Alterman's ambitious investigation into the true nature of the U.S. news media touched a nerve and sparked debate across the country. As the question of whose interests the media p...

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Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. But despite these arguments' significance to American politics, American Jewi...

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Thanks to the machinations of the right, there is no dirtier word in American politics today than ';liberal.' Yet public opinion polls consistently show that the majority of Americans hold liberal views on everything from health care to foreign po...

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If there's one thing we know about our current president, it's that he lies. Donald Trump's lies are so ubiquitous, so incessant, and so habitual that they have become inescapable -- from his false claims about the size of his inaug...

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In this agenda-setting essay, journalist and historian Eric Alterman explains what is really happening with the Obama presidency. While Obama's many compromises have disappointed liberals, Alterman argues that these concessions are largely du...

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