Book Review
The Iran agenda: America’s next “little” war
December 3, 2018The neocons behind the 2003 Iraq invasion that killed 500,000 and destabilized an entire region is: “If at first you don’t succeed, do the same thing again somewhere else.”
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“Race News”: Chronicling the Black press and fight for justice
March 9, 2018Black journalists in the commercial press packaged their mission of ending racial discrimination within a profit-oriented, objective presentation of current events, but "race news" wasn’t immune to politics.
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“A Queerly Joyful Noise”: LGBT choruses in theory and practice
January 10, 2018This is a complicated subject with a lot of moving ideas and parts.
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Review of “Reclaiming Gotham” misses de Blasio’s significance
November 15, 2017Bill de Blasio's win was a historic defeat of twenty-year Wall Street-Republican control of our city and a rejection of the discredited Democratic leadership’s neoliberal appeasement policies.
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Reclaiming Gotham: New York’s Bill de Blasio and urban American politics
November 3, 2017Veteran Latino journalist Juan Gonzalez presents a basically optimistic view not only of New York City’s recent progress, but also that of many other American cities.
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