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Alan Canfora, who was one of nine students who were wounded in the 1970 Kent State shootings but survived, has died. Canfora died Dec. 20 at home from an...

From his novels Candy and The Magic Christian to his work on Dr. Strangelove and Barbarella, Terry Southern sought to expose madness.

Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and the rest. The Chicago Seven came together to protest the war in the 1960s. Here's where the characters in Aaron Sorkin's film ended up.

Netflix's new film, directed by Aaron Sorkin, tells the story of the infamous "Chicago 7" trial.

This Asian giant is streamlining and overhauling its armed forces—just as Bible prophecy foretold.

The Los Angeles representative, a top contender to be Biden's running mate, is respected by both Democratic and Republican colleagues

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Dave Dellinger, principled anarcho-pacifist revolutionary (and one of the Chicago 7 defendants in 1969), wrote this essay in response to liberals – like Martin Luther King – endorsing federal troops being called in to suppress the 1967 Detroit Riots. His position is that we support "the side of the oppressed and exploited," in this case fighters for black liberation during the uprisings in Newark, Detroit and…

Why his reformist retelling of the Chicago Seven fails to tell the real story of the leftists on trial.

In 1970, Daniel L. Greenberg and two friends immersed themselves in the transcript of the infamous trial of the Chicago 7, eventually becoming editors of a published edition. Greenberg offers three lessons America still has left to learn 50 years later and explains how Aaron Sorkin's recent feature film reveals some -- though not all -- of them for new generations.

Aaron Sorkin's Netflix film dramatizes the notorious 1969 political trial with many players. Use this guide to understand the people and the issues at stake.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Eddie Redmayne lead the ensemble cast of West Wing and The Social Network writer Aaron Sorkin's new film about the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Streaming on Netflix now.

The speeches, the grandstanding, the quips — they totally work in the context of this Netflix courtroom drama.

She's a vanguard of advocacy and agitation. He just turned 18. Fix brought together the octogenarian and the teenager for a discussion on the past, and future of activism.

The radical notion that repression breeds resistance was borne out at Kent State in the years after the killings.

An FBI wanted poster called Rosenberg armed and extremely dangerous, and the Bureau wasn't wrong. Purses held semi-automatic pistols

Dana Goodyear writes about the prognostic abilities of the radical-left historian Mike Davis, the author of "City of Quartz," "Ecology of Fear," and the new book "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties."

The 1960s and 70s were a time of activism in the U.S., and therefore a fertile time for campus newspapers and the alternative press.

A former public radio reporter has been charged with firebombing cop cars during Black Lives Matter protests in Arkansas, according to federal authorities. Renea Goddard, 22, was one of four charge…

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