One year ago, Foreign Policy magazine placed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman at number 33 on their list the Top 100 Global Thinkers, noting that he “doesn't…
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(Image: PublishAmerica) Vietnam Ambush Daniel Seidenberg Jr. PublishAmerica Baltimore, 2010 In the 1960s, the United States of America conscripted young…
A pro-choice rally. (Photo: Jon Chiang) Long before Merle Hoffman found her niche as a provider of reproductive health care, she sought to be extraordinary. The…
Bill Clinton’s new book, “Back to Work,” is really several books in one slender volume. It’s a lucid one-man rebuttal of the Tea Party’s anti-government agenda. A series…
The world started to make sense to Zac Reed when he accepted a new religion into his life. As he describes his story in the new book of…
(Image: © 2011 Dreamworks II Distribution Co, LLC) Film director Tate Taylor scored a late-summer box office smash with his adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel, “The…
(Image: Grand Central Publishing) Filmmaker Michael Moore is one of those people with a knack for making things happen. As a high school…
A mother and her child who was affected by his parent's exposure to the chemical, Agent Orange. (Photo: Brendan Wilcox) Fifty years ago, while President Kennedy…
(Image: Microcosm Publishing) Decades after the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, Cambodian children still find human bones in their schoolyards. Past the tourist thoroughfares, where…
The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse edited by Marjorie Cohn New York University Press New York and London 2011 …