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Mike Wold

Articles by Mike Wold

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    Illustration depicting redlining

    How the real estate industry conspired against black homeownership

    BOOK REVIEW | “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    By
    Mike Wold
    December 13, 2019
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    Illustration

    Criminalizing prostitution further marginalizes sex workers, authors say

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘Revolting Prostitutes’ by Juno Mac and Molly Smith
    By
    Mike Wold
    October 25, 2019
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    Illustration of Robert Penn Warren interviews with civil rights leaders in the 1960s

    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
    By
    Mike Wold
    June 7, 2019
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    Restroom sign

    Potty oppression: How city planners neglect public restrooms

    BOOK REVIEW | “No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs” by Lezlie Lowe
    By
    Mike Wold
    April 12, 2019
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    "Beyond the Rebel Girl" book cover beside an illustration of a woman

    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
    By
    Mike Wold
    March 29, 2019
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    Naomi Klein

    A case study for disaster capitalism: Puerto Rico

    BOOK REVIEW | “The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists” by Naomi Klein
    By
    Mike Wold
    September 28, 2018
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    Illustration by Jon Williams

    Tech tools profile, police and punish the poor

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘Automating Inequality’ by Virginia Eubanks shows how technology is stacked against the marginalized
    By
    Mike Wold
    August 3, 2018
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    No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters, a collection of essays by Ursula K. LeGuin. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    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
    By
    Mike Wold
    July 27, 2018
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    Zack McDermott and his mother

    Bipolar disorder with a bird’s-eye view

    Zack McDermott’s memoir, ‘Gorilla and the Bird,’ describes his experience with bipolar disorder, the failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to mental health, and the unconditional support from his mother, ‘Bird.’
    By
    Mike Wold
    May 4, 2018
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    From the cover of "A Time to Rise"

    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)
    By
    Mike Wold
    January 19, 2018

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