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The suburbs have become too liberal and diverse for many white American conservatives, so “exurbia”—areas outside the cities and their suburbs—are becoming the staging ground for the radical right extremist insurgency . . .
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Politicians, pseudo-experts, and other partisans have led us to believe that there are only two approaches to climate change: doomerism or denial. Benji Backer, Founder and Executive Chairman of the American Conservation Coalition, argues that both are dead ends. In The Conservative Environmentalist,...
“I thought I was well versed in the New Deal, but it turns out I knew next to nothing. Diana Henriques’s chronicle is meticulous, illuminating,...
—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations...
16) An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.
This is a story about a dangerous idea—one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement—the
...This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton reveals why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-being
In a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that predict future life outcomes. In this timely and innovative account, economist Carol Graham argues for the importance of hope—little
A transparent first-hand account of a Black officer maneuvering through three terrifying yet rewarding decades of policing, all while seeking reform in law enforcement
When 16-year-old Keith Merith finds himself pulled over, berated, and degraded by a white police officer, he's outraged. He's done nothing wrong. But the officer has the power, and he doesn't. From that day on, he vows to join a police service and effect change from
...20) SO GOOD
Lancé par Ulule & So Press en juin 2020, le magazine So good raconte les histoires de celles et ceux qui rendent le monde meilleur, enfin moins pire. Des activistes, des artistes, des politiques, des associations, des entrepreneurs, des scientifiques, des citoyens, qui tous à leur manière apportent des solutions aux défis sociaux et environnementaux, et qui bien souvent passent sous le radar des médias. L’idée
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