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• Young Men With Old Brains: The Hard Realities of Traumatic Brain Injury in Sport

  By Drew Gibson on August 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Editor’s Note: In light of the recent controversy surrounding the NFL’s handling of Junior Seau’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony and a new settlement challenging the terms of NFL’s concussion settlement that was filed in a U.S. Circuit Court by… Read More ›

• Colorblind to Justice: The Enduring Legacy of Racism in The Progressive Era

  By Drew Gibson on August 16, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  A year before he was to make his first of five runs for The White House under the banner of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, Eugene V. Debs penned an article for the International Socialist Review titled, “The… Read More ›

• We’re Going To Miss You: Paying Homage To Jon Stewart on GOP Debate Night

  By Drew Gibson on August 7, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Today, as we bid farewell to Jon Stewart in his tenure as one of the most unlikely voices of a generation on The Daily Show, I must hark back to the original king of American satire and mockery, Mark Twain… Read More ›

• A Most Wretched Man: The Vile Legacy of Andrew Johnson

  By Drew Gibson on August 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  For much of the 19th century, it was fashionable for academics and historians in the West to subscribe to the “Great Man Theory” of history. The Great Man Theory, as it name implies, contends that the course of human events… Read More ›

• A Minor Penalty For A Major Infraction: Ignoring The Harassment of American Indian Children in South Dakota

  By Drew Gibson on July 29, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  I have lived close to 29 years on this earth and, as of yet, I have not been able to find anything that inspires me with as much natural awe and unbridled enthusiasm today as the long walk to Riverfront… Read More ›

• Black Votes Matter: Why Bernie Sanders Needs To Leave His Economic Comfort Zone & Tackle Racial Injustice

  By Drew Gibson on July 20, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Head over to Bernie Sanders’s campaign website and you will find the unbridled economic populism of the first self-proclaimed socialist this side of Eugene V. Debs to have a legitimate shot at making waves in a presidential election. In his, “On… Read More ›

• American History X-ed: How The Confederate Flag Was Divorced From Slavery & Segregation

  By Drew Gibson on June 29, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  From a physical standpoint, Alexander Stephens made a rather ironic spokesman for the superiority of the white race. Standing 5 feet 7 inches in height, Stephens wasn’t terribly short or tall by 19th century American standards, but he possessed a… Read More ›

• DebateKings: Your Only Home For (Fake) Fantasy GOP Debate Contests

  By Drew Gibson on June 29, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Sick of the 2016 presidential race already? Well, tough shit, because we’ve still got another 420 days to go until election day and that’s pretty much all you’ll be hearing about from now until then. Want to have a meaningful… Read More ›

• It’s Not Always Greener On The Other Side: Jill Stein & The Fight For Third Party Relevance in 2016

  By Drew Gibson on June 26, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  If there is truth in the old saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, it may be fast approaching the time that progressives in the United States need to file a… Read More ›

• Our Hateful Inheritance: Dylann Roof & The Blood-Soaked Roots of The Charleston Massacre

  By Drew Gibson on June 18, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Nearly a century after his death, the glowering visage of “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman still looks down upon the people of South Carolina from its perch outside the State House in Charleston. 8 feet tall and made of bronze that has… Read More ›

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