A groundbreaking critique of American charity which Barbara Ehrenreich says "demolishes the conventional wisdom that private philanthropy is innately superior to public welfare measures." What's Love
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United States went to war. With thousands of Americans killed, billions of dollars in damage, and aggressive military and security measures in response, we a
The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the p
The relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth has gone from dysfunctional to disastrous under the leadership of Barack Obama’s EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Jackson’s EPA has
Government-workers unions have been political juggernauts in the U.S. since the unseen collective-bargaining-rights revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. These unions are different and more powerful than
Accountability. Responsibility. When things go wrong, someone has to pay. In this case, that someone is Rennie Vogel.Hung out to dry for the debacle of the Tajikistan mission, Rennie finds herself on
River Tyler leaves her life in Virginia behind, setting out for the paradise of the Florida Keys. As a jewelry designer she’s been hired to manage a high-end jewelry store owned by one of the area’s w
man. Her mother’s pitiless devotion to scripture and abject worship of Delicious’s rabid preacher. Her father’s death-by-alcohol. Her own attempt to drown her sweetheart’s father?the preacher?in the
Dorsey Larue nicknamed her the “Naked Silver Lake Goddess.” It was a one-night only encounter, no names, just the music from the women’s festival and the stars as witnesses.Reluctantly returned home t
As MacArthur award-winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us?and as all research shows?there is no achievement gap at birth. In her long-awaited second book, Delpit presents a striking picture of the el
From the acclaimed South African novelist, a lyrical tale of self-discovery in post-apartheid cape town.Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Playing in the Light revolves around Marion, a wo
What do Whoopi Goldberg, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Rosie Perez, and Phylicia Rashad have in common? A transformative encounter with the arts during their school years. Whether attending a play for the
Viktor Koretsky (1909?1998) was a leading Soviet artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the early Stalin era through to the
Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy, especially the German version. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses? Social democracy doesn’t so
This nationally acclaimed book tells the shocking true story of how photographs taken by an amateur photographer and mother became the center of a disturbing legal battle that galvanized a community a
The sociologist and political scientist Frances Fox Piven and her late husband Richard Cloward have been famously credited by Glenn Beck with devising the ?Cloward/Piven Strategy,” a world view respon
When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square on January 25th—and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met—the politics of the region changed overnight.
A brawling, rambunctious history celebrating the Empire—and the intrepid empire-builders—that gave the United States, Canada, India, and Australia not just a common language, but common ideals of free
