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The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during Vietnam.  I was born in 1960...

A mural in Benham, Kentucky. Photo courtesy of Appalachian Transition Fellows. Benham, Ky., in the heart of Harlan County, is a quiet place with a proud sign that has been amended over time to read, “Benham, the little town that International Harvester...

THE CITY OF UKIAH’S own appraisal some years ago concluded that restoration of the Palace Hotel was not feasible, that no investor could expect a return large enough to recover the money he’d have to put into rehabbing the 19th century edifice...

It can only happen if engaged citizenry create a widespread but thoroughly interconnected movement. The following content originally appeared on TomDispatch:  [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For all those of you who get TomDispatch off an...

In recent months -- and it’s the curse of an author that sometimes you change your mind after your book is in type -- I’ve come to like the idea of capital L leaders less and less. It seems to me to miss the particular promise of this moment...