Marc Beallor reviews a new book of essays on what socialism might look like, and how it might be realized, in the USA
It took years of political evolution for King to understand nonviolence not merely as a moral force, but as an effective strategy for leveraging political change. Yet his embrace of that idea allowed him to shape history.
Driest conditions in 100 years could hit the nation’s food basket hard, affecting half of US fruits and vegetables.
New database lets consumers see if product has ingredient known to cause cancer, reproductive harm
A new wave of female labor leaders are winning by thinking big.
Hitler on the e-book charts; A new contender in rightwing media; Bookless library; Mass culture for profit; Internet - not safe for women
Book Review: Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory. Author Penny Lewis demolishes the mythology, and shows that working-class people were at least as opposed to the war as the middle and upper classes and that they played an indispensable role in the movement to end it, and that the black and Chicano movements were among the most militant antiwar voices.
An interview with Eric Foner, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.
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