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Surviving COVID-19 in Vietnam, the ‘safest place in the world’
April 30, 2020As an American living in Hanoi, everyone from back home has been calling to check on my safety. But I tell them there's nowhere I'd be safer than where I am now.
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Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’: Ambitious love letter to a tainted industry
April 29, 2020At a time when so-called “edgy” storytelling relies so heavily on tragic figures and miserable endings for the sake of “realism,” Hollywood’s attempt to give a little glimmer of joy is a breath of fresh air.
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L.A. in the sixties: Power to the people in the City of Angels
April 28, 2020This very readable but meticulously detailed year-by-year account has relevance far beyond its time and place.
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Red, Black, White: The Communist Party in Alabama
April 24, 2020The seeds of the Civil Rights Movement, of Black Liberation, and more were planted in the South by Communists in the Depression years.
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Lenin’s legacy at 150: Working class leadership in the fight for democracy
April 21, 2020The world is a better place because of V. I. Lenin. An outstanding 20th-century working-class leader and revolutionary, he helped change history.
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