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Election Day 2020 should have mimicked 1932. What went wrong?
August 13, 2021While a broad coalition beat back GOP control in several branches of government last year, progressive majorities don’t match the ones we had in 1932.
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Thousands of Indigenous children perished in ‘genocide boarding schools’
August 12, 2021Hunger. Starvation. Beatings. Ill-clothed in winter. Forbidden to speak their Native tongues. Sexual predators roaming the dormitory halls. Such was the lot of thousands of Indigenous children in the Indian boarding school era.
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Will it be the Kaiser’s ghost or a peace policy that prevails in Germany?
August 11, 2021That seems to be the big unanswered question on this, the 60th anniversary, of the Berlin Wall.
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Nagasaki remembers 70,000 dead, calls on leaders to create nuclear-free zone
August 9, 2021Nagasaki marked the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city today with its mayor urging Japan, the United States, and Russia to do more to eliminate nuclear weapons. In his speech at...
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Black women laundry workers finally get their due as organizers and leaders
August 9, 2021As a history of laundry workers and their 108-year struggle for justice from 1912 to 2020, Jenny Carson's book comes at an important time.
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