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In “All the Presidents' Bankers” Wall Street journalist Nomi Prins writes a painstakingly researched history of the financial industry's collusion with the White House to create a self-serving US …

There have been five great extinctions of species on Earth, all of them due to natural causes. In a gripping book, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the ongoing sixth extinction of …

Fictitious WMDs created a pretext for launching the ill-fated and destructive war with Iraq.

Yes, there are profiteers positioned to make fortunes off of the misery of climate change. Read about the details in “Windfall: The Blooming Business of Global Warming.”

The authors of “Toward a New Common School Movement” argue for defending a not-yet-realized “public” in public schools.

In ‘Imagine Living in a Socialist USA,’ Frances Fox Piven argues that the guarantee of a universal income would facilitate a new economic fairness and stability to a financial …

In “Imagine Living in a Socialist USA,” retired education professor William Ayers writes about knowledge as an inherently public good.

Author Donald Lazere details the means by which American corporations render their own political and economic power invisible.

In this excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power,” Max Haiven postulates the need to reclaim and reimagine the commons, to restore humanity and human …

The portrait of Jesus that emerges from Reza Aslan's “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” bears little resemblance to the image cultivated by the early Christian …