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Fair Warning Fair Warning

In Our Orbit: Tom Engelhardt's The American Way of War.

Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel

Slavery & Climate Change

Slavery & Climate Change Slavery & Climate Change

On October 10, more than 7,000 actions in 180 countries will celebrate solutions to climate change in what is expected to be the greatest number of recorded protests in a single da...

Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard

Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea

Predictable Democratic losses in November aren't what we should fear. The real danger is in a political environment unable to build even the most tenuous bridges across partisan di...

Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Harris-Perry

Founder Fatigue Founder Fatigue

Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries shows the founders as real people in motion instead of as Olympian gods.

Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robin Einhorn

Slacker Friday Slacker Friday

A tale of two attacked cities, or the differences between New York and Oklahoma City.

Sep 24, 2010 / Blog / Eric Alterman

History Helps Students Understand the Present, but not When History’s Cut From The School Curriculum History Helps Students Understand the Present, but not When History’s Cut From The School Curriculum

After taking an enlightening AP European History course, the author hopes that enrichment courses will survive the budget cuts to education.

Sep 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Demetrius Shahmehri

The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century

The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainst...

Sep 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Dreier

Unsettled: The Great Plains Unsettled: The Great Plains

The myths and misconceptions that distort the beauty and problems of the Plains.

Sep 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Charles Petersen

A Matter of Memory: On Ingo Schulze A Matter of Memory: On Ingo Schulze

The unvarnished fiction of One More Story explores Germany's papered-over past.

Sep 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg

It’s Not the Party—It’s the Policies

It’s Not the Party—It’s the Policies It’s Not the Party—It’s the Policies

Inequality has risen under Republicans and Democrats when they’ve embraced neoliberalism.

Sep 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robert Pollin

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