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  1. Giving up our privacy without much thought

    BOOK REVIEW | In ‘Privacy: And How To Get it Back’ author B.J. Mendelson says we’re up against the power of apathy in a battle which only wealthy tech companies win The problem with universal basic income is that proponents haven’t suggested a good source ...

    10 Aug 2018 - Megan Wildhood

  2. Tech tools profile, police and punish the poor

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘Automating Inequality’ by Virginia Eubanks shows how technology is stacked against the marginalized When politicians and business leaders talk about using technology to streamline service provision to the poor, they conjure up an efficient, ...

    3 Aug 2018 - Mike Wold

  3. Ursula K. Le Guin's radicalism of imagination

    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

  4. Jessica Bruder reveals a subculture in America spawned by the drive to survive

    BOOK REVIEW | 'Nomadland' looks at RV- and van-dwelling travelers in search for a place to park their lives The headlines may talk about growth, but we are living in a dark economic era. For most families, income and wealth have stagnated in rec ...

    15 Jun 2018 - Joe Martin

  5. Author Mark Lilla reflects on how identity politics fractures the Left

    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

  6. You can’t go home again

    BOOK REVIEW | Author Patrick Phillips delves into the violent past of the county in Georgia where he grew up Check out the website for Forsyth County, Ga. Looks pleasant and picturesque, “a great place to call home and do business” and not too far from At ...

    18 May 2018 - Joe Martin

  7. What if we could fix poverty, economy, environment all at once? We can.

    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

  8. Corporations are dying – and we're worse for the wear

    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

  9. Lessons from our own Filipino resistance

    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

  10. 'Ratf**ked': Political pranks and modern-day tricksters

    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

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