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“Mitt”: New Documentary on Netflix Whitewashes the 2012 Campaign
Simple-minded devotion to so-called “behind-the-scenes” consultations among candidate Romney and his family plunges the documentary “Mitt” into the abyss of know-nothing, self-affirming reality TV.
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Urban Gynecology Delivered With Compassion: Ellen Cohen’s “Laboring“
Ellen Cohen's “Laboring: Stories of a New York City Hospital Midwife” is an insightful description of the conditions and clashes endemic to American health care.
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What’s Missing Inside “Llewyn Davis“
The Coen brothers' latest movie, “Inside Llewyn Davis,” creates the now-gone world of folk music in the Greenwich Village of the early 1960s, but it totally misses key elements, …
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Robert Reich: US Leads the Developed Nations and Many Third World Nations in Income Inequality
“Inequality for All” explains how the United States came to be a nation that is distinguished by its concentration of wealth in the top 10%, with much of our …
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Legacy of Occupy: A Review of Mark Bray’s “Translating Anarchy“
Mark Bray's “Translating Anarchy” is the most compelling of the Occupy Wall Street insider stories and an illustration of anarchism as yeast to progressive movements.
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Pioneers of Media Diversity
Devorah Heitner's new book, “Black Power TV” describes the pioneering journalists who attempted to provide adequate media representation of African-Americans.
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“1913 Massacre” Film Takes a Trip Back to Calumet a Century After a Christmas Eve Tragedy
Producers of the new documentary, ‘1913 Massacre,’ Louis Galdieri and Ken Ross, talk about their movie and the tragic deaths of 74 at a union Christmas Eve party sponsored …
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A Seminar on the Labor Movement — With an Opinionated Professor
Reading Save our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress is like sitting in on a seminar on the modern labor movementu2014with Steve Early playing the role of opinionated …
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Wild Eats, Resilient Farms, and Freedom From Money: Three Holiday Reads for the Radical Homemaker
Books should light up our livesu2014especially during the dark days of winter. Here are a few to pass along.
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Powers Confronts Power and History in New Book
Nicholas Powers' new book takes the reader on an intense journey through the hot spots of inequity and iniquity in the first decade of this century.