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The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced

Julia Curl Hyperallergic
Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.

Iran: The Treason That Changed America’s Energy Future

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
How Reagan’s secret betrayal of America during the Iran hostage crisis helped him win the presidency, killed Carter’s clean-energy revolution, and helped create today’s crisis in the Strait of Hormuz…

Cuba Will Survive

Vijay Prashad LA Progressive
My friend was clear: the prevailing sensibility in the country was that the Cubans would fight to the very end to defend their right to a future and their refusal to return to 1958, the year before the Revolution.

And the Oscar Goes to … Men Not at Work

Stephen Lurie Convergence
Our male protagonists — or perhaps men more broadly — are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work.

When the Pencil Was the Sword

Lily Sanchez Convergence
When revolutionary Cuba asked its youth to eliminate illiteracy, 100,000 answered the call, reshaping their country and themselves in the process.