Sam Webb
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sam Webb
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Opinion
Trump and the politics of hate
October 20, 2016To understand the surge of the politics of hate we have to look beyond its loudest and most odious amplifier – Donald Trump.
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Robert Reich on Hillary Clinton: Too smug, too sexist
August 29, 2016"Does Clinton understand that the biggest divide in American politics is no longer between the right and the left, but between the anti-establishment and the establishment?"
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The Occupy movement’s 99 percent vs. 1 percent? Setting our sights and steering our course
August 17, 2016Even if the Occupy slogan doesn't capture the main political dynamic of the present moment, its value lies in the fact that it gives us a star to steer by.
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America at a crossroads: BLM, Dr. King, and the tasks ahead
July 14, 2016Appeals for racial justice now compete against calls for "law and order." The right paints Black Lives Matter as un-American. But if there are any patriots in all this, it is BLM.
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Cooperation and conflict: An uneasy, but necessary tension
June 30, 2016The Democratic Party embodies different political currents, not simply a neoliberal one.
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Pat Summitt, 64: Gender pioneer
June 28, 2016Summitt, if you don't know, was the legendary and beloved women's basketball coach at the University of Tennessee.
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Should Sanders take it all the way to the convention?
May 25, 2016Hillary, if she is smart, will tip her hat and extend a hand to Bernie long before they meet in Philadelphia.
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Hillary Clinton, Frederick Douglass, and imagination: A lesson in dialectics
May 6, 2016Douglass could have despaired over Lincoln's inconsistent anti-slavery credentials, but he didn't. The left should take a page from his book for 2016.
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