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Ernest Poole’s ‘The Harbor’: A working-class classic that still matters
May 14, 2026"The Harbor" does for the ship and dock workers of New York what Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle" did for the immigrants working in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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The battle for Berlin’s memory
May 12, 2026Government officials are eagerly trying to erase or “contextualize” the physical reminders of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Hitler and fascism.
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‘Colored People’s Time: A History Play’ theater review
May 8, 2026Spanning 100 years, the storytelling does not focus on the high and mighty but rather on ordinary people, the rank and file who actually turn the wheel of history.
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When do ‘detention centers’ become ‘concentration camps’? Experts look to history
May 5, 2026Some experts say U.S. detention centers “resemble is the early period of Nazi concentration camps.”
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NATO, a Cold War relic, is due for abolition
April 30, 2026The reason for NATO’s existence was wrong in 1949, and it’s still wrong in 2026.
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