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Despite being widely panned by critics, M. Knight Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (a remake of the Nickelodeon cartoon series) managed a solid second place in its opening weekend box office sales behind the latest Twilight flick and ahead of Toy Story 3.

Slavery didn't end with the surrender of Confederate forces in 1865.

Words matter. Especially when a U.S. president utters them, the corporate media echoes them, and other ideological institutions put them into practice as "official discursive tools."

August 5th, 2010. On this episode we play the first of a two-part interview with historian David Chang, author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Some democratic ideas about property and multiculturalism have indigenous roots.

On this episode we play the second of a two-part interview with historian David Chang, author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Some democratic ideas about property and multiculturalism have indigenous roots.

What is the subject matter and method of political economy according to Engels?

Issues of enduring historical import embodied in the Great Depression are reflected in the enormous quantity of art generated by the Works Project Administration’s Federal Arts Project (WPA/FAP), the largest and longest lasting of the Federal arts projects.

Capitalists want to maximize profits, and they do this by exploiting the working class.

Kyara strides across the campus mall hugging her sheet of dark glass close to her chest like someone might try to take it.

The Dangerous Inequality of Wealth see more headlines from the July 2010 issue: The Dangerous Inequality of Wealth

Did you reach the coverage gap, or "donut hole," in your Medicare prescription drug coverage this year?

All efforts must be made to provide the necessary political and material prerequisites to end the occupation and ensure the total withdrawal of all American forces by the end of 2011 in accordance with the Iraq-US security agreement.

Reviving a core demand from the August 28, 1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" Jobs with Justice is declaring a national "jobs emergency" and calling for Full and Fair Employment on September 15.

The benefits of trade were widely understood at a fundamental level even in ancient societies.

A coalition of U.S. organizations [Aug. 29, 2010] denounced the exercise of violent repression by Honduran military and police forces against members of a striking teacher’s union at a university in Tegucigalpa.

Quite frankly, America works because lots of people contribute lots of ideas – that's good – even when some of them are just plain wrong. But people need to come to the table in good faith. That's not Sarah Palin. She'll go down in history like McCarthy. Palinism will become an ugly word.

Glenn Beck is a sick man. Crazy actually, crazy like a Fox News Network. Maybe if he never existed, it would be necessary for the Devil to invent him.

Salmon farming, which involves raising salmon in containers placed under water near shore, began in Norway about 50 years ago and has since caught on in the U.S., Ireland, Canada, Chile and the United Kingdom.

In a letter of support for the First Amendment, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have sent an open letter to the organizers of Park51 Community Center in lower Manhattan describing the effort as being "about as pro-America as one can get."

A for-profit daycare continued its war against pro-union workers this week as it fired two more employees.

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