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Salvador Allende died 46 years ago in a US-backed coup. Here's his final address, broadcast over the radio while he was barricaded in the presidential palace. The generals that overthrew Allende coordinated with the CIA and the U.S. State Department.

A new supergroup — Highwomen — is making music with a mission. They proudly call themselves a movement as much as a band, whose mission is clear: solidarity, specifically with other women in country music. Their debut album came out Friday.

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The prestige of classical music obscures a range of unseemly realizations: arts managers are union-busting bosses like any other. Case in point: the lockout of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra members.

The city is creating a network of walkable, mixed-use “superblocks.”

While foreign election interference has dominated discussion of disinformation, most intentionally false content targeting U.S. social media is generated by domestic sources.

"No president or presidential candidate has offered a proposal so bold and sweeping."

Following fifteen months of tense negotiations in which the employers’ continually refused to provide reasonable proposals the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 cancelled contract negotiations.

The argument that's usually framed as "identity politics" versus "class politics" is one of the animating features of today's insurgent left. Both this book and reviewer Gandesha seek to unpack this argument's complexities.

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