BOOK REVIEW | "American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants” by Robert E. Bartholomew and Anja E. Reumschüssel In November 1688, an elderly Irish Catholic woman named Ann Glover was hanged in Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wa ...
3 May 2019 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | “The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists” by Naomi Klein Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last September, knocking out the electric grid, leaving thousands without shelter and, directly or indirectly, causing th ...
28 Sep 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | Although the author has left us, her essays validate that her acuity, wit and perception are eternal In your spare time, what do you do?” That question on a survey elicited this response from writer Ursula K. Le Guin at age 81: “I... don’t k ...
27 Jul 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | The writer of 'The Once and Future Liberal' provides an elegantly concise how-we-got-here history I had thought the malaise of relentlessly focusing on identity was just me. That only I was feeling like an ant under a magnifying gl ...
1 Jun 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus’ 'A World of Three Zeros' is focused on solutions It’s important to start with the realization that poverty is not caused by poor people.” Let me rephrase Muhammad Yunus, author of “A Wo ...
6 Apr 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | In 'The Vanishing American Corporation,' Gerald F. Davis argues today's severe income inequality is a result of a decline in corporations If you’re feeling shut off from the workforce, meaningful career advancement, or the abi ...
23 Feb 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | 'A Time to Rise' is a collection of personal reminiscences of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) Many histories of the New Left end with the 1960s or early 1970s, often focusing on the White student opposition to the Vietnam W ...
19 Jan 2018 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | Former Salon editor David Daley documents how Republicans are using technology to ensure gerrymandered victories Ratfucked! A raw epithet that goes back to the 1920s. Five decades later, it became a favorite of Richard Nixon’s dirty trickste ...
29 Dec 2017 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,” by Cathy O’Neil If you’ve been denied job after job, even some of those entry-level, low-wage positions, Cathy O’Neil can explain. If the rates you’re ...
1 Sep 2017 - Megan Wildhood
Journalist Alison Flowers follows four exonerees whose lost opportunities and struggles to rebuild their lives left them feeling trapped even after their release from prison More than 2.3 million people are being held in state and federal correctional fac ...
13 Oct 2016 - Katherine Luck