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Is socialism a more emotionally intelligent economy than capitalism?

June 13, 2019 By Tim Libretti

Have you ever noticed that we often talk about and even measure the effectiveness of our economy in emotional terms?

Documentary shows Israelis going back to the future in the ancestral fatherland

June 13, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

There is rich compost feeding this 77-minute story, which could probably be developed into an ongoing TV series involving these complex interrelationships across time, culture and tragedy.

Christina Schlesinger’s ‘Tomboys’ honors a milestone in modern lesbian art

June 12, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

There are probably but a handful of galleries in the world where such art could be shown even today.

Communist Party and Labor History Tour a big feature at coming convention

June 11, 2019 By Special to People’s World

From the birth of May Day to the birth of the Communist Party, Chicago is a center of world labor history.

James Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights

June 7, 2019 By Tim Wheeler

It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.