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“I am Latina,” insists poet Rafaellla Daumas. “And I am not another curiosity to be stared at/ And I am not just another stereotype.”

This book argues that the United States must move beyond its current minimalist approach to fighting poverty and adopt a set of policies aimed at the "structural vulnerabilities" in our society that keep people poor.

Among the last journalists left in Ukraine after the invasion, Mystylav Chernov captures a horrifying portrait of destruction in “20 Days in Mariupol" a pulsating documentary about the first three weeks of the Russian siege that killed tens of thousands of people.

Increasingly, libraries offer more than just a place to take a break between using fast and free internet and researching ancient Martian glaciers. They’re stocked with cafés and wine bars (yes, really!) that encourage lingering with a culinary experience all their own.

It’s been 15 years since the last WGA strike, and the stakes are far greater.

Eco poetry: California poet Dee Allen looks back and forward to the fight to save the South Atlanta forests.

Reviewer Fazli examines this new History of the Democratic Party, written by a former editor of Dissent magazine.

125 years after his birth, Paul Robeson, the civil rights titan, remains a role model for battling racism and fascism. The words written on his gravestone: “The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.”

The Court ruled that the manufacturer can keep classifying the product as a spray, not a butter or margarine — and telling consumers that each serving is free of calories and fats.

Dead Ringers, which premieres on Friday, is subversive, sometimes shockingly gory, and a needful skewering of the U.S. medical system, the unethically wealthy, and perhaps most of all, the women society lauds as the arbiters of feminism.