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Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston's Puritan founders, he attended Harvard, like all the men in his family, and prepared for the settled life of a minister. Instead, he rejected both privilege and convention, and embraced radical causes, attaching himself to nearly every major reform movement of the day, from women's rights to abolitionism. More than merely a fellow traveler, Higginson was a proponent of direct action.

It’s time to get real — and to get revolutionary. The Gen-Z revolution is underway, the world is on fire, and the old system is crumbling. The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) will follow this process as it unfolds across Britain and the globe, exposing what the bourgeois media hides and fears. Each episode brings uncompromising Marxist analysis, revealing the class forces at play and the decisive role communists must take in leading the fight for revolution.

Once a week, former special operator, Capitol Hill national security advisor, and Pentagon insider Mike MacKay breaks down the most critical issues in tech, politics, and war. Forget the PhD, think-tank jargon, this is real talk from someone who's lived it. Mike cuts through the noise to help you understand what's happening and how it could affect your life. No fluff. No spin. Just the truth about why the world is on fire.

"Trump Returns Fire, Calling Clinton a 'World-Class Liar'" is from the June 22, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Alan Rappeport and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens - all with his encouragement. Duterte is a serial womanizer and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama and Pope Francis "sons of whores." He is on record as saying he does not "give a shit" about human rights. Yet he is beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, seen as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel.

In the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rain forest—and anyone who stands in the way Deep in the heart of the Amazon, the city of Rondon do...

In August 2005, the New York City Fire Department released approximately 23 hours of radio dispatch audio recordings from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This came after The New York Times, along with eight 9/11 families, sued to win public dissemination of the transmissions, as well as hundreds and hundreds of pages of transcribed oral histories.

"Wind, Sun and Fire
" is from the Column section of The New York Times. It was written by Paul Krugman and narrated by Fleet Cooper.