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Looking for a quintessentially American book to read this 4th of July? As we celebrate and/or mourn the 250th birthday of the…
In recent years, the news media has often reported polls suggesting that majorities of segments of the American populationāfor example, Democrat voters…
Memoir by AFL-CIO Official Traces Unusual Career Path Any book bearing blurbs by Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, and Tom Morello, with a…
Books that reach a prisoner are always important. They are read attentively, without skipping details that, in the outside world, would probably…
In a new memoir, the legal expert shares how her experiences as a Black woman gave rise to frameworks the far-right has…
LONDONāIn the early 17th century, deep within the palm forests of northeastern Brazil, a group of people escaped slavery and founded an…
The East German secret police kept a file on Michael Jackson. He performed near the Berlin Wall in June 1988, and the…
UTRECHT ā Yesterday the Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation successfully launched the compilation, the Little Book on Fascism and How to Fight…
Long before the Lone Star State started shifting, in the 1990s, from blue to redāafter a century of Democratic Party dominationāsome working-class…
A review of Scott Kurashige, American Peril:Ā The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism.Ā Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2026.Ā 341 pps.…
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