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The People’s Rogue: FDR vs. the Nine Old Men
Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Photo: Wikimedia) The president must have been savoring that afternoon of December 26, 1936. Tea was served, and the president entertained his attorney general …

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“Orwell Rolls in His Grave“
(Image: Sag Harbor-Basement Pictures) As a member in good standing of the media, I watched “Orwell Rolls in His Grave” with a wince and a feeling of …

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Film Chronicles American Jews Caught Between Two Worlds
(Photo: Jens Schott Knudsen / Flickr) “Between Two Worlds” Produced and directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman Edited by Kenji Yamamoto …

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Grassroots Solutions to American Crises: From Collapse to Action
(Image: PM Press/Estreito Meios Productions) Reviewed: “Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action” A Documentary Film by SĂlvia Leindecker and Michael Fox. Published by PM Press/Estreito …

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Refugees’ Descendants in Southeast Asia Prove Stateless Society Is Possible
(Image: Yale University Press) The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia Yale University Press, 2009

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Reporter’s First Novel Holds Mirror to Culture Prone to Ignoring the Obvious (2)
(Image: Simon & Schuster) So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman Simon & Schuster New York, New York, 2011 "The responsibility of every …

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And the Show Went On
 And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris Alan Riding Alfred A. Knopf New York, 2010

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Black Panther’s Posthumous Writings Cover Activism’s Risks, Rewards
(Image: Feminist Press) “The War Before: The True Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Fighting for Those Left Behind” Safiya …

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“Merchants of Doubt”: A Review
American physicist Frederick Seitz, founding chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute. (Photo: Laura Gilpin / AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives) Merchants of Doubt is a …

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Is This the Way the World Ends?
(Photo: NASA / Flickr) The purported end of the world came and went, and, to the surprise of few, the rapture did not come to pass on …