‘Pandemic Solidarity’ Offers Hope Amid COVID Gloom
The global crisis of COVID-19 has lasted long enough for us to see books published on how we responded…
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Rekindling the ‘Romance of American Communism’
The reissue of Vivian Gornick’s classic work of oral history offers activists lessons for today.
Frank Sinatra, Woody Guthrie, Arthur Miller & the Reds on the Brooklyn Waterfront
An excerpt from “Bernie’s Brooklyn: How Growing Up In The New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders’ Politics” by Theodore Hamm.
‘The Book of Old Ladies’ Gives Them Their Due
“Older women are almost never the ones whose story matters,” Ruth O. Saxton writes in the Introduction to The…
Joe Allen’s ‘Package King’ Delivers a Modern History of the Essential Worker
On May 1, workers at Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target and FedEx protested for better health and safety…
My Ankle Monitor Won’t Let Me Take Out The Garbage
While we live under “house arrest” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a good time to revisit what the real thing is like.
Capitalism: Isolated, Sick and Down
The post-Great Recession expansion, the longest bull market in U.S. history, has met the matador. For the second time…
In 1970, Janice Johnson, a Black single mother in Philadelphia, was facing eviction from an old apartment building condemned…
‘Certain Days’: A Calendar That Breaks Down Walls Wherever It Hangs
It was a full-circle moment when Herman Bell attended the launch of the 2020 edition of the Certain Days…
A new book offers a sweeping defense of the controversial Wikileaks publisher.