Meaning Behind the Song “Ants Go Marching” pulls some of its lyrics from “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” a Civil War-era song that celebrated soldiers’ return from the war.

If "The Ant Bully" were released 50 years ago, it would be read, not at all incorrectly, as communist propaganda. In the computer-animated story, a colony of ants captures a young American boy and ...

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A version of this article appears in print on July 10, 2022, Section A, Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: In New York Apartments, the Ants Go Marching Up.