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The conformity of 1950s film and television was the result of the successful McCarthyist purge of leftists — and their genres — from the entertainment industry. The life of socialist screenwriter Very Caspary shows how it was done and what was lost.

What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.

The U.S. troops arrive amid an upsurge of Peru’s underclass. Peru’s mostly rural, poor, and indigenous majority elected the recently deposed Castillo as president in 2021, they are now calling for Boluarte's, (his unpopular replacement) removal.

We have global capital organized on energy supplies, organized on food production and distribution, organized on services, and organized on how we communicate. So why aren’t we organized internationally? Why aren’t we equally globally organized?

Kissinger is having an extended birthday month. It has also been a month of outstanding watchdog reporting — including new revelations about previously untold mass killings Kissinger was responsible for in Cambodia.

The case for strict staffing ratios in American hospitals and skilled nursing facilities is remarkably straightforward: They save lives and reduce nurse turnover.

The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged.

Why Tim Wu thinks regulators might block a PGA Tour-LIV Golf “partnership.”

In a democracy, decisions about the use of publicly-owned land and public funds should be driven by robust public debate, including the right of members of the public to peacefully protest.

The so-called “arc of history,” says poet Kenneth Pobo, does not “bend toward justice,” and he tells us why!