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Crossroads

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The New York Review of Books
The protests of 2020 revealed the extent to which our political movements are at a real crossroads. Do we continue to place the vast majority of our hopes on conventional politics? Or do we really begin to engage in the necessary project of rebuilding a radical, even revolutionary left?

1 Billion Crabs Disappear

Jonathan Vigliotti CBS
Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs.

Friday Nite Videos | October 14, 2022

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The Trump Allies Who Invoked the Fifth Amendment | Liz Cheney. Crime Reporting | John Oliver. The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales | Movie. The Problem of Gender in Arkansas | Jon Stewart. This Family Made Billions While Killing Half A Million.

Angela Lansbury Was a Brilliant Actor and a Comrade

Eileen Jones Convergence
Angela Lansbury, who died this week at 96, was a proud socialist who achieved enormous success in film, theater, and TV. Yet her astonishing range was botched by the Hollywood studio system — preventing her movie career from flourishing even more.

Getting To Know the Cubans: Khrushchev Meets the Castro Brothers

National Security Archive National Security Archive
For the first time in any language the National Security Archive is publishing a translation of the first meeting between Khrushchev and Raul Castro on July 18, 1960, providing new insight into what each side wanted, expected and promised.
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