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U.S. socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont lays out his ideas for how to thnk about and remedy the injustices of America’s extreme capitalist system in his new book, “It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism.” The 81-year-old political activist remains engaged and even iconic as he counsels anger at the powers-that-be and assures readers it’s okay to be angry. Stan Persky thinks it’s a compelling argument.
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On a Sussex pig farm in 1963, Brian Fawcett is thinking about the intelligence of pigs, dogs, humans, and nuclear missiles.
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Mikhail Iossel is on the Red Arrow night express train from Moscow to Leningrad on January 9, 1986, when he meets a fellow traveler with two bottles of brandy and a box of chocolates. It’s a journey that can be told in a sentence.
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Cutting Edges left-winger (and author) Dan Gawthrop joins Pittsburgh Penguins exec Brian Burke in backing Hockey Pride Nights, as Canada’s national sport leaves behind the age of the social dinosaurs.
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In Ch. 5 of Brian Fawcett’s “Sussex Variations,” there’s courage, war, character and a dying boar.
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Vian Andrews is out in the olive orchards, clearing brush from under the trees and thinking about ChatGPT and the future of artificial and other kinds of intelligence. The latest passage from Andrews’ journal about life in the Umbrian countryside, “Scribbles from Italy.”
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A tour through the history of writing. From David Shields’ 2010 manifesto, “Reality Hunger.” Time for a second look.
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Brian Fawcett learns about the gory details of life on the farm. Ch. 4 of “The Sussex Variations.”
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From the Archives: Twenty years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq. Here’s what Dooney’s said two decades ago about the American imperial “punitive expedition,” as it rolled across Iraq.
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Brian Fawcett learns about males and females, both human and porcine, on a pig farm in Sussex, England in the early 1960s.
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