When “sustainability” includes social justice, most US chicken gets a failing grade.
In 1978 body snatchers really did dig up and try to ransom the corpse of the legendary actor Charlie Chaplin shortly after his death. 'Stealing Chaplin' uses this fact-based bit of skullduggery as a mere launching pad for its fact-free comedy.
Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel turns a masterpiece into amazing television.
The fact cannot be stressed enough that in the 19th Century, the anti-slavery and women's rights campaigns were interrelated and interlocking movements. This book shines further light on this history.
A biography of protean intellectual Edward Said situates the advocate for Palestinian statehood as a deep political thinker and skeptic of identity politics would both excoriate the crimes of Israel and the US and denounce Arab despotism.
The first White House food summit took place a half-century ago and changed the trajectory of hunger in America. Has the time come for a serious rethink about the way we approach food and nutrition policy?
It's an apolitical show. So why do politicians keep talking about it? It’s ironic that so many people have hung the American self-image on a show with its roots in a mildly condescending joke about ugly Americans.
The Vietnam War ended, but the fight against the use of the chemical compound Agent Orange is far from over. Two women from opposite ends of the globe are united in their battle to hold the manufacturers of the toxic defoliant accountable.
This book offers an examination of how the language of imperialism portrays anti-imperialism and rebellion as infection and pestilence, and how that language is "central to the management of empire and neoimperial formation."
With plagues, political dysfunction and near-Dickensian economic differences rampant, a Mother Jones editor charts the lives of the super rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.
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