Book Review
“Pity the Billionaire” recounts hijacking of public opinion
February 21, 2012Thomas Frank, ex-Wall Street Journalist turned liberal political savant, is currently the darling of the airwaves for NPR and Democracy Now fans.
Read moreMedia and power
February 7, 2012Canadian sociologist Jeffery Klaehn has put together a penetrating collection of essays dealing with the political economy of the mass media spanning a broad range of topics.
Read moreLeft on the bookshelf: “Blacks, Reds and Russians”
January 24, 2012There is a much less known story of another group of immigrants who sought freedom and opportunity, but it wasn't to America but to the Soviet Union that they fled.
Read more“Retirement Heist” shows how they stole the pensions
January 11, 2012Three decades ago, prior to Reagan's "Republican Revolution," 40 percent of America's retirees were receiving real, defined benefit pensions.
Read moreFinding Joe Hill in new biography
December 20, 2011Nowhere is the romance of the Industrial Workers of the World more beautifully told than in the life and songs of its greatest troubadour, Joe Hill.
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