Blogger and journalist Kevin Drum died earlier this month at the age of 66 after a long battle with cancer. His most recent website, where...

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Monday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day , a date chosen based on the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camps. It's a...

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It would be nice if basic sanity and now democracy itself weren't on the line every presidential election, but here we are again. Donald...

It's the end of Banned Books Week , which celebrates banned and challenged books. My archive in the category is here . Last year, we l...