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Eighteenth Brumaire of Emmanuel Macron repeats an earlier French history
February 2, 2026Like Louis Napoleon, Emmanuel Macron, a failing executive, tries to act as emperor.
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Radical legacy: Revisiting Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ on 175th anniversary of her death
January 30, 2026The Netflix adaptation doesn’t do justice to the novel’s critique of illegitimate power and debates about tyranny, equality, and revolutionary reform.
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On their way to Nuremberg
January 29, 2026The latest from award-winning People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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General crisis of capitalism remains dominant force in our lifetime
January 26, 2026The world has undergone tumultuous change in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.
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How Edward Bellamy’s ‘Looking Backward’ is looking ahead
January 26, 2026Revisiting Bellamy’s book, published in 1888, where capitalism has withered away
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