Today at Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales speak with Stephen Kinzer about his latest book, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, who says the US likes democracy so long as the US preferred candidate wins in other countries. Among the many things discussed in the podcast below, is that "the United States has interfered in more than 80 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000. And that doesn’t count U.S.-backed coups and invasions."
In proximity of the Two World Wars, how did a transcontinental group of artists, educators and moralists use conflict as a catalyst for change toward high-minded social reform between 1915 and 1965?
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Frances Perkins: The woman who designed Social Security
After a long hiatus - resulting from the death of my mother and a cross country relocation from Seattle to Atlanta, with a 6 month pit stop...

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The Agency of Art: War, Pedagogy and Social Change - 1915 to 1965 is a book being written to explore the parallel and interrelated relatio...
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Earlier this month the nation paused to celebrate the legacy and life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK), who in his lifetime became a symb...
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Today, as the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s is re-examined on the 50 th anniversary of his death by sniper fire, it is tempting to...