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This Week in People’s History, Mar 11–17, 2026

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Tsunami approaching Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant When Willful Negligence Kills, It’s No ‘Accident’ (2011), Tom Paine, Heroic Journalist (1791), ‘God Is Germany’s Only Judge!’ (1936), Bad Blood Between U.S. and Iran Has a Long History (1951), A Catastrophic Day in Court (1886)

‘Moderate’ Democrats Ain’t What They Used To Be

Perry Bacon The New Republic
Moderate voters are not like the people who purport to speak for them. And that’s crucial for Democratic candidates and strategists, as well as journalists, to understand. They're not looking for a nominee with a Republican-lite platform.

International Women’s Day 2026: Did You Notice?

Jeanette Winterson Mind Over Matter
The earliest reported Women’s Day seems to have been in New York in 1909. In 1975 the United Nations officially recognised March 8th as International Women's Day. Did you see much coverage this weekend? Me neither. So here’s some!

Iran Transformed

Arang Keshavarzian The New York Review of Books
To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.

Whatever It Takes

David B. Green The American Prospect
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has gone to great lengths to cling to power.

The Left’s Housing Civil War Is Ending

Liam Dillon, Janaki Chadha Politico
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani are embracing a mix of housing policy ideas that could permanently reshuffle urban politics.
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