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  1. Universal basic income: The check could be in the mail

    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

  2. Revisiting the Robert Penn Warren interviews: A snapshot of the civil rights movement

    BOOK REVIEW | “Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Interviews” by Stephen Smith and Catherine Ellis In 1964, Robert Penn Warren, the famed white writer, interviewed a number of black leaders – organizers and writers – and eventually published a lengthy ...

    7 Jun 2019 - Mike Wold

  3. The ultra-rich who give with one hand, take with the other

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘Winners Take All, the Elite Charade of Changing the World’ by Anand Giridharadas In 1889, opulent industrialist Andrew Carnegie penned the foundation statement of the modern philanthropic movement. In what was known as “The Gospel of Wealth ...

    17 May 2019 - Joe Martin

  4. A deep history of bigotry and othering in the U.S.

    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

  5. Potty oppression: How city planners neglect public restrooms

    BOOK REVIEW | “No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs” by Lezlie Lowe What makes a city livable? Urban planners talk about public spaces, pedestrian access, good transit, parks and more. But they almost never talk about public toilets. ...

    12 Apr 2019 - Mike Wold

  6. A salute to the women of the IWW

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘Beyond the Rebel Girl’ by Heather Mayer chronicles the contributions of women in organized labor in the Pacific Northwest A hundred years ago, Washington and Oregon were hotbeds of labor radicalism. The most radical union of the time, the I ...

    29 Mar 2019 - Mike Wold

  7. 2 books that explore Big Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘Dopesick’ and ‘Pain Killer’ Dope-wasted in Lee County, Va., a disconsolate farmer told his physician that the powerful prescription drug OxyContin had destroyed his life. He had lost everything. Another Virginian, an unemployed miner, admit ...

    4 Jan 2019 - Joe Martin

  8. Inside the mind of Joe Gould, a legendary but troubled writer

    Book review | “Joe Gould’s Teeth” by Jill Lepore Who is Joe Gould? He has been dead since 1957 but he keeps popping up. There was a time, during World War II, that his name had become known to many, thanks to a splendid profile about the unkempt little ma ...

    30 Nov 2018 - Joe Martin

  9. A case study for disaster capitalism: Puerto Rico

    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

  10. Drugs of Deutschland: Nazis, fascists and methamphetamine

    BOOK REVIEW | "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich" by Norman Ohler Winston Churchill was utterly flummoxed. The German Army’s unexpected Blitzkrieg through France was an astonishing act of audacity that drove the Allied armies to the brink of dis ...

    14 Sep 2018 - Joe Martin

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