Montgomery, Alabama is a city of real struggle. Everywhere you turn there are plaques, information boards, murals, memorials, and statues, dragging the tourist gaze back to the South’s tumultuous past. Walking around the city, it is hard not to feel deeply affected by both the gruesome and truly heroic stories which have come to shape the state and the country.
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IndyRef 2014
In what follows, the best and the brightest of IANS editors, staff writers and contributors discuss why they intend to vote the way they do. We then finish off our discussion with a short consideration of the alternative: devo plus.
Read MoreThe Alarming Banality of Racism
As my train rolls through the Scottish borders and into England’s green and pleasant land, I read news of a furore surrounding a so-called plot by ‘extremist Islamists’ to ‘hijack’ the school curriculum in Birmingham.
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