• Is China finally breaking the U.S. stranglehold?
    Is China finally breaking the U.S. stranglehold?

    The U.S. is in desperate economic and military “competition” with China and has lost a lot of ground fast.

    Mandy Tröger, Richard Maxwell, Ben Scott, Sut Jhally, Des Freedman, Deepa Kumar, and Victor Pickard on Robert W McChesney – Podcast
    Mandy Tröger, Richard Maxwell, Ben Scott, Sut Jhally, Des Freedman, Deepa Kumar, and Victor Pickard on Robert W McChesney – Podcast

    Mandy Tröger, Richard Maxwell, Ben Scott, Sut Jhally, Des Freedman, Deepa Kumar, and Victor Pickard on Robert W McChesney

    Israel as a tool of U.S. imperialism
    Israel as a tool of U.S. imperialism

    A number of notable parallels run through the histories of Israel and the United States.

    Curriculum of Control: Capital’s Grip on U.S. History Education
    Curriculum of Control: Capital’s Grip on U.S. History Education

    The Classroom Is a Battleground Teaching U.S. history in a public high school today is a subversive act. In the face of mounting attacks on education, educators like me are caught between the curriculum we are allowed to teach and the truth students desperately need to understand. It is no exaggeration to say that the […]

    Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington
    Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington

    We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project. The Great Depression rendered 140,000 women and girls across the United States homeless. In 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that employed 8.5 million people over the course of eight years. In her book, Arrington challenges the popular memory of WPA art as a story of straight white men. Instead, she argues that the works of art that many women created under the Federal Arts Project made visible Black, immigrant, and women’s lives in a way that challenged segregationist, xenophobic, and sexist structures intrinsic in the nation’s institutions.

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