» Kim Kelly on the Difference Between a General Strike and a National Shutdown (And Why It Matters)

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On January 23, thousands of people across the state of Minnesota took part in a massive day of action to protest ICE’s violent occupation of their home. Despite subzero temperatures, the day saw between 50,000 and 100,000 people hit the streets to demand justice for Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman murdered by an ICE agent […]


Why Symbolic Interpretation Matters in Art and Literature

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Among my favorite works exhibited in the Scaife Galleries of my hometown Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art is a beguiling, enigmatic, and beautiful 1956 painting by René Magritte entitled Le Coeur du Monde—“The Heart of the World.” Completed after Magritte had already established his international reputation as among the most influential and important of Surrealists […]