Before the Hays Code arrived in 1934 and, for several decades, banned everything from interracial relationships to nudity on screen, there was a glorious time in Hollywood known as the pre-code era.
In the days of the Roman Empire, plebeians and patricians alike entertained themselves by watching men fight to the death. Some two millennia later, we’re much more civilized; we entertain ourselves ...
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When they were at sea, the fishermen were sometimes made to work for 48 consecutive hours without rest. A group of foreign fishermen in Taiwan were locked in tiny windowless rooms around the clock to ...
From the days of slavery to the 21st century rebirth of the poll tax, our tax system has been concentrating wealth at African-American expense, as legal scholar Andre Smith details in a timely new ...
Slavery has been written off as part of the pre-history of our world. Contemporary capitalism was shaped by its rational brutality but the banks, insurers and speculators who facilitated and expanded ...
Across the globe, a generation of youth is rapidly reaching adulthood bearing the tragic consequences of their nations’ worst problems. Youth are on the move. As technology has developed and the world ...