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Guatemalans remember 1954 U.S.-backed coup as they battle today’s right-wing election theft
July 21, 2023The right-wing ruling class was shocked when Bernardo Arévalo and the center-left Semilla party surged into the presidential run-off.
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‘Oppenheimer’ review: Masterful exploration of history, anti-communism, and the Atomic Age’s legacy
July 19, 2023A look at the life of the father of the atom bomb and the moral dilemma he faced in creating world-ending weapons.
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A century ago, Zitkála-Šá exposed an orgy of atrocities against Native Americans
July 17, 2023In 1923, a Dakota-born writer-activist traveled through Oklahoma to investigate abuses against the Choctaw, Creek, and other tribes. What she found was appalling.
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‘Queen Margaret’s Version of Shakespeare’s War of the Roses’: A theater review
July 14, 2023A perfectly captured damaged spirit of a character whom the world made suffer because of his physical differences, and is therefore hellbent on vengeance.
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How U.S. imperialism’s drive for nuclear weapon dominance poisoned St. Louis forever
July 14, 2023The AP examined hundreds of pages of internal memos, inspection reports, and other items dating to the early 1950s, and found nonchalance and indifference to the risks of materials used in the development of nuclear weapons...
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