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How To Read the Communist Manifesto

James Robins The New Republic
The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.

Life And Death 3,000,000 Years Ago

What was life and death like for some of our earliest ancestors, like famed australopith  Lucy, who lived almost three million years ago?

The Other Big Lie

Mother Jones video journalist Garrison Hayes and essayist Anthony Conwright examine the white grievance on display at the January 6 insurrection and trace it to the suppression of Black civil rights in the post-Civil War period.

ARGENTINA, 1985 | Movie

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.

Hanging Mohsen on the Gallows

Majid Naficy
The Persian poet Majid Naficy still awakens at night, mourning friends and family, victims of the Iranian regime.