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Trump revives D.C. takeover threat and orders restoration of Confederate statue
August 7, 2025President claims crime is “out of control.” The Parks Service, meanwhile, is resurrecting a monument to Albert Pike, a founder of the Klan.
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On 80th anniversary of Hiroshima, new questions arise about ‘the Bomb’
August 6, 2025Top official admitted that, with the Nazis practically defeated, the real reason for dropping the bomb was to emphasize U.S. hegemony in the post-war world—and to send that message to the USSR.
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‘My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria’ review: The freedom fighter tells her story
July 29, 2025Andrée Blouin was a freedom fighter who helped to mobilize thousands of Congolese women to the cause of Belgian Congo independence. This is her story.
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‘Forgotten: Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant’: Jazz-blues opera revived in Detroit
July 28, 2025Coming to the stage this fall: a compelling musical show about Detroit workers.
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Ninety years later, we still need a Popular Front
July 25, 2025Almost a century after Georgi Dimitrov’s famed 7th Comintern Congress speech, the Popular Front is not a historical relic but a roadmap providing direction to do what must be done.
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