The publishers’ lawsuit against our library is featured in the latest episode of “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast.”

Have you ever noticed how whenever someone inconveniences the dominant western power structure, the entire political/media class rapidly becomes very, very interested in letting us know how evil and disgusting that person is? By Caitlin Johnstone. [Censored by Medium, rehosted]

A political theorist’s provocative idea for how to fix democracy. By Sean Illing.

Reflecting on revisionist history 50 years later. By Matt Taibbi.

Computers could be the key to resolving partisan fights over congressional boundaries. By Eric Boehm.

One of France’s most influential contemporary thinkers, Marcel Gauchet manages to craft a compelling historical account of half a millennium, exploring how we arrived at today's crisis—and how we might get out. By Michael C. Behrent.

A ballot initiative campaign to restore tuition-free college in Calif. (Feb. 6, 2018)

King should be appreciated in his full complexity… By Nathan J. Robinson.

Barbara Simons believes there is only one safe voting technology. By Jill Leovy.

The privatizers say that “education is the civil rights issue of our time,” and they present themselves as crusaders for civil rights when they demand that teachers be fired, public schools closed, and that privately managed charter schools and vouchers be provided. By Diane Ravitch.

In February, Arkansas lawmakers marked the 50-year anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act with a resolution calling it “a shining example of open government” that had ensured access to vital public records for generations.They spent the following weeks debating and, in many cases approving, new exemptions to the law in what critics called an unprecedented attack on the public’s right to know. By Andrew DeMillo and Ryan J. Foley.

Dolores Huerta, a largely unsung hero in the fight for farmworkers’ rights, is the subject of the new movie, Dolores, that recounts her life as a feminist and union organizer, report Dennis J Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina.

Andrew Bacevich reviews “The General v. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War” by H.W. Brands.

A quiet bombshell of a biography that reclaims a revolutionary Thoreau for the 21st century. By Daegan Miller.

The right loves to accusingly demand, “Do you love this country?” We need the confidence to answer, “I love the parts you’re trying to destroy.” By Jon Schwarz.

The surprising persistence of Henry David Thoreau. By Jedediah Purdy.

A movement born on social media begins to fear that technology is making it vulnerable. By Craig Timberg.

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu destroyed all justifications for having Confederate monuments in his city. By Charles P. Pierce.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has long exaggerated the minuscule threat of voter fraud while promoting policies that make it harder to vote — and his efforts have already had an impact on elections in Southern states. By Sue Sturgis. (May 17, 2017)

Mississippi State Representative Karl Oliver wrote on Facebook that leaders who removed Confederate monuments in Louisiana should be ‘lynched.’ By Harold Gater, Geoff Pender. [Autoplay]