New Book Looks at the History of Carceral Apartheid
Research reveals the ways resistance inside prisons has been suppressed, propping up an unequal and unjust social order.
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When Teaching About the Past Becomes a ‘Truthcrime’
Radical educator Jesse Hagopian’s latest book looks back on past waves of classroom repression and the resistance movements that overcame ignorance and prejudice.
How Economic Power in the World Works
A review of ‘The Economic Government of the World’ by Martin Daunton.
Sexual Violence Still a ‘Normal Feature’ of Life on College Campuses
Sociologist Nicole Bedera investigates how universities handle sexual-violence claims and how victims are impacted by efforts to seek justice.
Illustrated Book About Hunger in the US Offers New Ways of Perceiving the Poor
Anti-poverty activist and journalist Pat LaMarche spoke with people in numerous shelters and published some of their recipes.
Alexis Pauline’s new biography of Audre Lorde re-envisions the life story of the legendary “Black lesbian feminist poet warrior mother.”
A Group of Friends Ages Together in Novel with Climate-Crisis Motif
Although the climate crisis is a theme in this novel by Eric Puchner, the characters don’t take action to work against it.
Book Review: A Love Story About Lingering Pain
Two art students, a homework assignment that becomes a passionate romance and a shocking turn of events that takes decades to resolve.
Book Review: The Far Right’s 70-Year Crusade to Extinguish Public Education
Heightened efforts in recent years to paint public schools as bastions of ideological perversion, sexual permissiveness and anti-white ideology are part of a long-running campaign that is gaining momentum.
Book Review: Power-Hungry Christian Nationalists
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America