Power Up: A History of Energy and the People Behind It
In the late 19th century, horses hauled wood culled from North America’s great forests in order to heat and…
The Indypendent
Books
Bill Fletcher Tackles Identity, Race and Small Town Murder With ‘The Man Who Fell From The Sky’
“Race” as a biological category differentiating humans has been a spurious and discredited marker for more than a century.…
‘Sketchtasy,’ A Novel of Coming of Age Amid AIDS
Lambda Literary Award winner Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has described herself as “a genderqueer faggot, and a queen, on the…
What if you had your own guaranteed income, six month’s paid maternal leave, free health care and government-subsidized daycare? …
The Rise, Fall and Redemption of Two of Rock’s Great Radicals
Radical politics, drugs and rock ’n’ roll — and winding up in prison — are the common threads between…
In two new books, the history and the nature of work are put under the microscope.
People in leftist social movements rarely argue that they should create a network of business enterprises that advance their…
New Yorkers dislike many things. Subway delays. That smell during summer. But what New Yorkers really dislike is real-estate…
Taking on Dirty Power in Richmond, California
On August 6, 2012, an elephantine plume of black smoke rose over Richmond, California, sending some 15,000 people suffering…
A World Worth Fighting For: Marx Reconsidered
Scholar and activist Mike Davis is best known for City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, a…