Jerome Kaye grew up on the Lower East Side of New York in the 1920s and ‘30s and became radicalized by the economic injustice all around him. He was a member of the Communist Party in his younger ...

At 3 a.m. one day last December, a 78-year-old volunteer for the British Conservative Party was reportedly woken by a call ...

Universities are obliged to allow free speech. They are also obliged to make sure that students can attend classes free of ...

Kendrick versus Drake was a race to design the most insulting sentence — until the rappers and their admirers redefined what ...

The biggest barrier to an alliance between these two demagogues would be Kennedy’s reputation as a serious environmentalist. But there are some environmentalists who believe RFK Jr.’s anti ...

Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens. KPFA is offering The Trial of Socrates by I.F.

Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine Coalition, an unrecognized pro-Palestine student group, accused The Harvard Crimson of anti ...

cool-headed analysis and an insistence on comparing what we hope for to what we can reasonably expect–and, therefore, it offers wise counsel: stop listening to demagogues.

Universities are often where dark cultural movements draw their first breaths. In Germany, Nazism was embraced by students ...

History teaches that these kinds of continued inequalities — in economics and political privilege — are the breeding ground for political demagogues to exploit disaffection and to drive social ...

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