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June 18, 2015
Cover Me
Today's Altercation features interesting and relatively obscure cover songs.
June 16, 2015
June 16, 1938: Joyce Carol Oates Is Born
"Oates believes strongly in the authority of the individual’s experience of reality."
How to Defend the Indefensible
The issue isn't police misconduct—the issue is rap music and baggy pants!
June 15, 2015
Concentration Camps in the Dominican Republic?
With mass deportations looming, Dominicans of Haitian descent live in constant fear of detainment.
Qatar’s World Cup Preparations Could Kill as Many as 4,000 Migrant Workers
Will the scandals roiling FIFA put a stop to the deadly construction projects?
Magna Carta Said No Man Is Above the Law, but What About Corporations?
Celebrate the great charter of liberty by amending the US Constitution on behalf of democracy.
After 25 Years of Losing to Wall Street, Left-Wing Democrats Are Winning
The defeat of Obama&#rsquo;s trade deal may be the beginning of the end of the imperial presidency—and the start of a major comeback for the left.
June 15, 1904: The General Slocum, a Passenger Steamship, Sinks in the East River, Killing Over 1,000
"The tragedy strain[s] the compassion of the mere reader to the point of numbness."
June 13, 2015
Hillary Clinton Lays Out Her Presidential Vision on Roosevelt Island—but She Still Needs Some FDR Fire
The 2016 front-runner needs to get comfortable—and specific—about calling out today’s economic royalists.
June 12, 2015
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