Culture
Books that changed the world: Historians assess 100 years of International Publishers
October 29, 2025With McCarthy-style witch-hunts once again on the horizon, institutions like International Publishers, which incubate free thinking, social critique, and dissent, are all the more valuable.
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‘Norita’ film review: Emotional doc explores resistance and revolutionary motherhood in Argentina
October 29, 2025The story of how a small spitfire of a woman gave a murderous dictatorship hell and inspired her fellow mothers to never back down.
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‘Positive Obsession’ review: Riveting biography offers intimate look at Afrofuturist icon Octavia Butler
October 28, 2025New book explores the personal journals of the novelist, offering deeper look at her struggles for recognition, her working style, and her views on American political realities.
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From Daily Worker to Daily Show: Communists back in the national conversation
October 23, 2025Spotlights aren’t typically red, but that’s the color they’re glowing this week as the Communist Party USA steps onto the national stage in a way not witnessed in several years.
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Do the Philadelphia Phillies have a diversity problem?
October 20, 2025The team can’t seem to win another World Series and it may have to do with the racial makeup of its players
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