Letter from the editor.

• Author: Rebhun, Elliott
• Position: Brief article

Our cover story looks at China's new history textbooks, which de-emphasize Communism, and Mao himself, in flavor of capitalist icons like Bill Gates and J.P. Morgan. In Times Past, we revisit the chaos of Mao's Cultural Revolution (which the textbooks also ignore).

At home, we examine Nancy Pelosi's all-but-certain rise to Speaker of the House and what it says about women in national politics, 86 years after they gained the right to vote.

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