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In their encounters with Western art, Soviet audiences found ways to reimagine themselves.

Mayor de Blasio’s announcement of a salary parity agreement was historic in committing the city to equalize starting salaries for certified teachers in community-based early childhood education organizations with their public school counterparts.

“His death highlights how standing up for environmental and indigenous rights protection can cost people their lives.”

Teen climate activists attend a hearing to address the climate crisis and its traumatic effect on the younger generation

What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels?

There is a “brain gain” afoot that suggests a national homecoming to less bustling spaces.

How elections are stolen; Austin turns the tables on abortion funding; Arnautoff Murals; Progressive prosecutors; Ecofascism; Brutality at the camps; Sotomayor sounds the alarm

Tarantino succeeds in superimposing two meta-narratives: the end of the Western and the self-destruction of the counterculture. Both stories are symptomatic of the war in Vietnam, though here Vietnam is little more than background.

He neither expected nor asked much of his adopted country—basically just the chance to earn a paycheck and be free from government and employer intimidation.

Timothy Faust’s new book is part history, part manifesto, and part irreverent tour guide to America’s deeply flawed health insurance system.