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
BOOK REVIEW | 'I’m Right and You’re an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up' by James Hoggan with Grania Litwin Gun control. Transgender rights. Black Lives Matter. The war on terrorism. There are many hot-button iss ...
25 Aug 2016 - Gayle Clemans
BOOK REVIEW | James Kilgore explains our dubious grip on freedom in ‘Understanding Mass Incarceration’ The irony of our criminal justice system is that our “land of the free” locks up more of its people than any other country. As such, it’s an outlier in ...
28 Apr 2016 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Rule of Nobody’: Philip K. Howard searched for someone but came up empty-handed Take any problem facing our society today,” Philip K. Howard challenges, “and ask yourself, who has the authority to fix it? The answer is nobody.” The cour ...
7 Jan 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
The accounts of Gitmo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi reveal brutal – and inefficient – treament It is one thing for the news media to tell us the U.S. government mistreats prisoners at the benignly named Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. It is entirely anothe ...
8 Oct 2015 - Jim Douglas