political art
Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War’ and the aesthetics of terror
April 9, 2026March 30 marked the 280th anniversary of the birth of an artist who explored with equal intensity the horror of his era and terror as a psychological reaction and existential condition.
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Will the Cuban revolution survive?
February 23, 2026The latest from award-winning People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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Poem: ‘Minneapolis’
February 4, 2026"Defying the King, with his army of fear. Never give up on what you hold dear."
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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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Jack London at 150: ‘The Iron Heel’ as the first dystopia of imperialism
January 9, 2026The pioneering literary figure's writing, shaped by his theoretical contradictions, became a mirror of a pivotal developmental period in the U.S.
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