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The Comintern was formed at a moment of revolutionary hope quite different from conditions today. Yet beginning in 1920, the Comintern tried to chart a course for revolutionary socialists in non-revolutionary times.

Moscow says Syria’s Soviet-era systems downed majority of US, UK and French missiles

Publicly owned internet networks are giving some rural regions an advantage over even the techiest big cities.

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The spirit and sass of the Parkland school’s namesake live on in the million young anti-violence activists who have risen up since the shooting.

In the spirit of Gil Scott-Heron, a half century and a technological transformation later.

The 30-minute show is a bold departure from the rest of late-night, which includes many fellow Daily Show alums. Unlike the rest of late night, Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas will devote a substantial part of its entire first season to the topic of policing in America.

It’s not about “golden showers” or small hands.

More Puerto Ricans—around 5.4 million—now live in the United States than in Puerto Rico, with around 3.3 million residents. The continued depopulation of the Caribbean island appears unstoppable.

Nearly 40,000 Vietnamese have been killed since the end of the war in 1975, and 67,000 maimed, by land mines, cluster bombs and other ordnance.