Rutger Bregman’s book Moral Ambition calls for successful people to use their talents to “make a difference.” But he’s ...

The current crisis builds on decades of neoliberal plunder and economic austerity authored by both conservative and liberal ...

There are no guarantees that any approaches, new or old, to reversing the labor movement’s decline will succeed. But Eric ...

It’s been a busy few weeks for Bernie Sanders, traveling around America on his Fighting Oligarchy tour. The message is clear: billionaires are bad, the economy is rigged, and the people must be ...

Some movements are peaceful, others turn violent. These books tell stories of people's experiences of racism and of those who put their bodies on the line for the cause of equality under the law and ...

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D.E.I. backlash aren't dogmatic or indoctrinating. They offer nuanced and complicated visions of race and other forms of ...

Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, has a new book arguing that almost all conventional wisdom ...

The texts in his Penguin Book of Demons predate this inward turn, however. Ranging from medieval hagiographies to the poetry of Walter Scott to folk tales from Virginia, they depict demons as ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday that it is now surveilling the social media of people applying to immigrate and international students for “antisemitic activity.” ...

In his short, pithy book Owned, Eoin Higgins sketches deftly the emergence of this elitist ideology. But this story becomes subordinate to a second one, which relates how two writers in particular – ...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Every October the Northwest Library in Reno participates in “Banned Book Week.” The display includes the classics like ‘The Hobbit,” ‘Catcher in the Rye,” “For ...