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How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

            With the public gravitating toward insular hostile camps, bipartisan cooperation is rare in our current politics. Mónica Guzmán building a bridge between such groups....

Laura Coates’ Just Pursuit seeks a fair legal system for Blacks

Laura Coates, author of “Just Pursuit,” touches the heart as few other writers can. Her stories are not filled with anger or pity but...

Why Making the COVID Vaccine was a Long Shot

An interview with David Heath, author of Longshot, reveals that government, businesses, and many researchers discounted the science that made the COVID vaccine possible.  “Longshot: The...

Jelani Cobb Reflects on the Matter of Black Lives

In the last 12 months, Professor Jelani Cobb, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has authored three groundbreaking books on race in America. The Matter of...

Student Power, Democracy and Revolution in the Sixties

Since the Sixties, college students have disrupted our politics and culture. On-campus, their activism has reshaped our higher education institutions; off-campus, they have expanded...

Author of ‘After Cooling’ discusses Freon’s legacy and the societal cost of air conditioning

Originally published in the Seattle Times on 7/27/21 In opening Eric Dean Wilson’s book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of...

Can Critical Race Theory Reframe American History Successfully?

            For the first time in four decades, we have a new national holiday, the Juneteenth National Independence Day. It celebrates the liberation of Black...

Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’

Syndicated talk show host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann returns with a new book, The Hidden History of American Oligarchy — Reclaiming our Democracy...

Three WWII Books Mirror Our Current World Conflicts

  World War II ended 75 years ago, the problems that it left behind, displaced immigrants, lack of international law, and the use of nuclear...

Running against the Devil by Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson

Rick Wilson has worked to elect Republicans for thirty years, but he will “no longer use those skills to serve the party I once...

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