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A report from the Zinn Education Project released early last year found that, nationwide, the Reconstruction era is seldom taught accurately in K-12 schools, and often not enough class time is spent discussing this period. As a result, the Reconstruction era is poorly understood.

Laura Poitras' "All the beauty and the Bloodshed" is a powerful documentary about Nan Goldin’s life and work against the Sackler family and their role in the opioid epidemic. The film has been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary.

Fox News stands naked, and more media world shockers

Review of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023).

With a death toll expected to surpass 100,000, how will the nation come to terms with what happened and move forward?

A Welcome and an Introduction to a magazine of Black politics and culture.

Sanders lashed out at the new, extremist government in Israel, which includes a minister once convicted of incitement to racial violence.

Amid the upsurge of successful union representation elections overseen by the National Labor Relations Board, workers are still struggling to secure their first contracts—and real change in the workplace.

In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.

The man who oversaw the peaceful yet tragic end to state socialism in the east, then stayed to fight for the working class in the newly unified Germany, passed away on February 10, aged 95.