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The Greatest Little League Season of All Time

Jesse Hagopian Rethinking Schools
The baseball diamond became a classroom. The lesson was not that racism can be defeated in an afternoon, or that we could make injustice disappear. The harder lesson was: When someone is harmed, we have a choice.

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Historian Debunks The Biggest Witchcraft Myths

Historian of Witchcraft & Demonology Mikki Brock deep-dives to separate fact from fiction: the Salem witch trials, the original witch hunts and what modern-day witch hunts look like.

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An Organization of Organizers

Alan Wald New Politics
Reviewer Wald says this book "is entirely convincing that the IS achievement in this era should earn a well-deserved place in any accurate history of the 1960–70s Left."

Why French Students Are Revolting

June Loper, Harrison Stetler The Nation
France’s education system is stretched to its limits, as student anger kicks off a hot fall protest season.

How Monopoly Fascism Rose Again

Ron Knox Democracy
A generation of Americans learned from Nazi Germany that monopolies fuel fascism. It’s time we relearned that lesson.

Who Profits From ‘Saving’ Women?

Ngozi Nwosu-Juba Africa is a Country
From the Women’s War of 1929 to the Anlu uprising three decades later, African women were organizing and resisting long before donors arrived to ‘give them a voice.’

Where Hatred Lies

Omer Bartov The New York Review of Books
A nuanced new history by Mark Mazower reminds us that antisemitism, an age-old threat to Jewish life, can be warped into a political tool—as we see today, when any criticism of Israel can be deemed antisemitic.

James Lawson Was the Civil Rights Movement’s Drill Sergeant

Chris Maisano Convergence
The civil rights movement’s nonviolence was a moral commitment and a strategic calculation of how the movement could best exert power. No practitioner of that nonviolence was more effective and disciplined than Rev. James Lawson.
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