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Category: Politics and Current Events
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The RFRA controversy is just one aspect of a much larger monkey wrench hurled by the right into the entire framework of civil rights.
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The United States is one step from bringing trade sanctions against China for its domestic trade in tiger bone and rhino horn. The fact is the US has been one step away since 1993, thanks to a legal petition filed by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) with the Clinton administration.…
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In an excerpt from AT HOME IN EXILE, Alan Wolfe warns that, although Islamic anti-Semitism can occur, we shouldn’t let it derail efforts to coexist.
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‘Considering Hate’ authors Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski examine the shadow side of the #JeSuisCharlie movement.
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President Obama’s decision to re-establish commercial and diplomatic ties with Cuba caused Beacon’s Associate Publisher Tom Hallock to think about what it might mean for publishers, writers, and readers, and to reawaken hopes he had when he visited Cuba almost twenty years ago.
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“Staggerlee wonders” is a poem that could have been written for the current moment, a poem imbued with the spirit of #BlackLivesMatter, with the heartbreak and the anger of #ICantBreathe.
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In the wake of the Senate Torture Report, we take a look at several books that confront the issues of CIA torture, human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq, and the Bush administration’s complicity through it all.
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Beacon talks with Jarek Steele, co-owner of St. Louis’s Left Bank Books, about their Black Lives Matter reading list and discussion group, and the bookstore’s longtime commitment to social justice.
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