‘Mr. Jones’ screenwriter Andrea Chalupa has family ties to Ukraine stretching from the 1930s famine to the Trump impeachment — with ‘Animal Farm’ and Soviet propaganda sprinkled in Ukraine being used as a pawn between super states will come as no surprise ...
7 Feb 2020 - Steven MacKenzie
The German World War I veteran's life story is now a comic Gregor Gog’s life was one that spanned a time of social transformations, revolutions and human catastrophes in Europe. Born in Schwerin an der Wartke (now Skwierzyna, Western Poland) in 1891 ...
27 Dec 2019 - Bastian Pütter
BOOK REVIEW | “Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream” by Aaron Glantz What’s your favorite token in Monopoly: the ...
8 Nov 2019 - Helen Hill
Jillana Goble set out to write about her family’s experiences with foster care and adoption. What resulted was a guidebook. “Signing up for foster care is an invitation to raise your hand and invite heartbreak and suffering into your life.” Hardly the sen ...
1 Nov 2019 - Libby Dowsett
The activist uses art to tell stories – something he says is essential to organizing Ricardo Levins Morales describes himself as a “healer and trickster organizer disguised as an artist.” The social justice artist is celebrating 50 years of artistry and a ...
25 Oct 2019 - Casey Miller
‘Waking the Witch’ author Pam Grossman says her activism and her magic are intertwined Pam Grossman is a writer, curator, practicing witch, and teacher of magical practice and history. Her new book, “Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Powe ...
20 Sep 2019 - Casey Miller
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World’ by Annie Lowrey When Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang introduced his “Freedom Dividend,” a plan to give every adult in ...
26 Jul 2019 - Ashley Archibald
In his book ‘She’s So Cold,’ Donald E. McInnis details the long, harsh interrogations of three boys who were wrongly accused. Now, he’s advocating for a simplified Miranda warning for children. Author and longtime defense attorney Donald E. McInnis has a ...
19 Jul 2019 - Libby Dowsett
‘Night Dogs’ exposes racial and economic disparity in 1970s Portland The scene is Portland, Ore. A largely African-American community has been laid-off, bulldozed and forgotten, its neighborhoods awash in poverty and drugs. The police, even according to o ...
28 Jun 2019 - Jason Cohen
Her new book, 'Elderhood,' reveals a reality in which doctors receive little training in the complexities of treating the elderly With improvements to health care and quality of life in the 20th century, the American life expectancy lengthened. ...
14 Jun 2019 - Emily Green