BOOK REVIEW | 'How to Make White People Laugh' uses comedy to tackle social justice issues It may be possible to change the world one joke at a time. At least, that’s the thrust of Iranian-American comic Negin Farsad's May 24 release, a boo ...
19 May 2017 - Mike Wold
Book Review: “Demand the Impossible! A Radical Manifesto” by Bill Ayers and “Struggling for the Soul of Our Country” by Preston Browning Jr. It’s the stuff of daily news. Christian Parenti, author of 2011’s “Tropic of Chaos,” refers to the “catastrophic c ...
16 Feb 2017 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | Colson Whitehead’s novel is a fable of life in hell "The Underground Railroad is bigger than its operators — it’s all of you, too. The small spurs, the big trunk lines.” Then Colson Whitehead was a child, he thought the Underground Rai ...
5 Jan 2017 - Elliott Bronstein
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond’ by Marc Lamont Hill When you hear about one more killing by police, read one more statistic about racial disparities in arrests and mass incarceration ...
27 Dec 2016 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | 'The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government,' by David Talbot In 1947, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the National Security Council and the CIA. Thu ...
20 Dec 2016 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | Judges and government agencies that looked the other way played an important role in the rise of our next president, author David Cay Johnston explains There’s something in “The Making of Donald Trump” for everyone. For Christians, one of ...
23 Nov 2016 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right' by Jane Mayer If you care about the poor, the environment, fair taxes, workers’ rights, consumer protection and safety regulations, you’re li ...
15 Nov 2016 - Megan Wildhood
The novel ‘At the Center’ portrays the vagaries of a bureaucratic system responsible for addressing society’s ills Sixty-year-old Sylvia Jensen is a veteran social worker and supervisor of a crucial program responsible for the placement of vulnerable chil ...
12 Nov 2015 - Joe Martin
At last count, the U.S. had more than 500 military bases in other countries. It spends as much on its armed forces as the rest of the world combined. According to author John Michael Greer, that’s because the United States is an empire and its military do ...
19 Aug 2014 - Mike Wold
A spat between a drug manufacturer and states that use the death penalty could soon be impinging upon residents’ right to die. Pharmacists I’ve spoken with from Portland to Seattle, report the manufacturer of pentobarbital, the drug used under Washington ...
16 Jul 2014 - Hunter Marshall