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What “Orange Is the New Black” Gets Right about the Prison System – and What It Leaves Out
“Orange is the New Black” is the latest in a long line of criminal justice-themed TV shows. But its penitentiary setting allows it to broach issues about the criminal …
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Life as a Target: A Review of Fruitvale Station and the Trayvon Martin Verdict
We bought tickets to see Fruitvale Station, a film about Oscar Grant, a young black man shot dead by an Oakland transit cop when a text beeped my cell …
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“Cracked Open” Exposes Heartbreak of Many Counting on Fertility Methods
Eleanor Bader reviews Miriam Zoll's personal account of the failed promise of in-vitro fertilization.
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50th Anniversary of “The Feminine Mystique”: Friedan’s Rediscovered Writings on Industrial Working Women
One of the most common and enduring criticisms of ‘The Feminine Mystique’ is that Friedan does not say anything about working class women or minorities.
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Life as a Target: A Review of Fruitvale Station and the Trayvon Martin Verdict
The screen goes black and in the dark I felt his life, Martin's life, Bell's life and many others draining away. Here are the men of color that we …
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Dystopian Novel, The Water Thief, Imagines the Corporate-Controlled Future of America
Nicholas Soutter's novel may take place in the future, but it's clearly a future today's society created, with corporations ruling all and citizens spied on all day, every day.
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DOJ Put DeChristopher in Federal Prison for Defying Big Energy
Directors Beth and George Gage record DeChristopher's journey from an act of civil disobedience to incarceration.
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TJ English and the Political Economy of Crime
In ‘Whitey's Payback and Other True Stories: Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge’ TJ English reports on a 'vast ecosystem, a parallel universe to the social and economic system we …
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Outsourcing, Union Busting, Murder: Who Could Ask for More in a Novel?
Eleanor J. Bader reviews ‘A Bitter Pill: A Lenny Moss Mystery’ by Timothy Sheard.
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Film “Gimme the Loot” Pays Homage to the Graf Writers Who Risk It All
‘Gimme the Loot’ is a smart film which glorifies the artists who risk everything to share their work, for free, in the public realm, challenging street art's own glass …