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New Book on Worker Co-operatives and Regional Economic Development
Building Co-operative Power introduces the history and concept of worker co-operation and relates past and present stories of worker co-operatives in the Connecticut River Valley.
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A Review of Koblitz’s “Sex and Herbs and Birth Control“
According to Koblitz, the variation in pregnancy definitions allowed ample moral and ethical wiggle room for women to take matters into their own hands, so to speak.
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Mass Incarceration Found Guilty
In “Mass Incarceration on Trial,” Jonathan Simon argues that a 2011 Supreme Court decision that will improve overcrowded conditions and neglect in California prisons may also have a positive …
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More Subversive Than You Think
Rick Perlstein's “The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan” is a significant book that details the rise of the right wing in the United …
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Magical Tale Traverses the Harsh Realities of Racism and the Potential for Female Solidarity
This book is not an easy summer read.
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“Government’s Arsenal to Destroy Revolutionaries”: Political Imprisonment Persists
In his book “The Struggle Within,” about political prisoners who are locked up for revealing what's wrong with the United States, author Dan Berger shows how incarceration serves as …
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Abolishing the Broken US Juvenile Justice System
In her second book, “Burning Down the House,” Nell Bernstein shows that the fight to abolish juvenile detention facilities and decarcerate youth is far from over.
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Truths and Falsehoods About Ralph Nader’s New Book
Readers of Ralph Nader's new book may not conclude that liberal-libertarian alliances are inevitable, but will come to see how they can be profoundly productive.
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Against Forgetting: “The Phoenix Program” and the Awakening of Historical Memory
Douglas Valentine's “The Phoenix Program,” republished as the first in a series of repressed, forgotten books, shows the continuity between the CIA's secret war against civilians in Vietnam and …
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Twenty Lessons From Couples Trying to Create a More Equitable Relationship Balance
If educators really want an informed student body, they will make ‘Sex from Scratch’ an integral part of the sex ed curriculum, says Eleanor J. Bader.