Culture
‘The Sympathizer’: Not sympathetic enough
April 26, 2024HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.”
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‘An informed organizer is an effective organizer’: Why I read People’s World
April 26, 2024VIDEO: Eric Brown, a union organizer in Maine, shares why he supports PW and thinks you should too.
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Spring global TV series preview: The good, the bad and the ‘interesting’
April 25, 2024What follows are a few global series worth watching in the coming months, along with a few that, no matter when they arrive, would not be worth watching, and a few that have at least a...
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‘Fear of a Socialist America’: Research on Black radicals featured at historians conference
April 24, 2024Thousands of scholars and historians gathered in the Big Easy for the 2024 Organization of American Historians conference, where a range of radical and progressive panels and workshops were held.
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Stalin, Zhdanov, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich star in ‘Stalin’s Master Class’
April 22, 2024Politics collide with art, terror, and rich helpings of morbid comic relief when “Father of the People” Joseph Stalin and Soviet Cultural Minister Andrei Zhdanov summon the Soviet Union’s two most eminent composers, Sergei Prokofiev and...
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