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Rethinking the Future

Fossil fuels can't last forever. A new book plans for a world without them.

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Playing the Gringo Wild Card

Chesa Boudin’s Latin American diaries.

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Old War on New Deal

The new book Invisible Hands reveals how quickly conservatives organized to challenge New Deal liberalism.

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‘Kidnapped’ in Gaza

A BBC correspondent's book--now available in the United States--details his Gaza kidnapping and collects balanced reportage from the Middle East and Central Asia.

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Iran’s History Comes Out

A new book brilliantly details the evolution of gender and sexuality from pre-modern Persia to the 20th century.

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Road Tripping Through Whitopia

Rich Benjamin set out to write about race‚ and wrote about class instead.

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The Big Other

A giant stalks the literary landscape.

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Not All Happy Families Are Nuclear

A new book chronicles experiments in domesticity.

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Won’t Get Fooled Again

(Well … maybe just one more time.)

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In Mexico, Resistance is Futile

John Gibler chronicles a country embattled, but not conquered.

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Operation Infinite Imperialism

Two recent books examine America’s military and diplomatic forays into South and Central Asia.

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Citizen Gore Vidal

Elections won't reverse the decline of American democracy, the prolific literary legend says

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Toilet Ecology

The Big Necessity argues toilets and sewers are the key to improved sanitation. But reality is more complex - and toxic

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Punk Manifesto

Erick Lyle's On the Lower Frequencies collects material from the low-budget zines Scam and Turd-Filled Donut -- and deals with issues still important today

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Mapping the Road Less Traveled

Practical Idealists offers useful advice for young activists, but is utilitarian to a fault

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Class Not Dismissed

New York isn't the only city that never sleeps. Across America, many educators spend restless nights wondering how to… more

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A People’s Historian of Sports

It's easy to see sports today as nothing more than an escapist distraction, an uncomfortable marriage of commercialism and… more

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A Textbook Case

AP students learn ABCs of right-wing talking points

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The Divided States of America

After the first-ever televised presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy in 1960, a… more

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Sam’s Club Politics

On a recent episode of the NBC comedy "30 Rock," the cutthroat corporate executive Jack Donaghy, played by Alec… more

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Portrait of the Awkward Artist

If Pablo Helguera's The Boy Inside the Letter (Jorge Pinto Books, 2007) had adopted a subtitle, it would have… more

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Youth Gone Wild

Jared Cohen's book Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels among the Youth of the Middle East seeks to understand an area of the world where hatred for his country and religion run rampant

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Come on People! Bill Cosby is Right

Cosby's critics excoriated him for delivering his rant from an elitist ivory tower without offering solutions, arguing that the black poor are the helpless victims of white supremacy and institutional racism

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Prairie Style Romance

Though Nancy Horan takes great liberty in imagining intimate scenes between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney--of which there is no evidence--Loving Frank ultimately rests on historical record

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The New Road to Serfdom

Over the course of 500 pages in The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein documents the moments of chaos and disruption that allow a small coterie of experts to swoop in and administer what's invariably called "bitter medicine," "painful reforms" or "shock therapy"

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Suffering Secondary Trauma

Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind explores the complexity of Chang's psychology as it formed around the demands of her profession and her personal struggles stemming from her writing about The Rape of Nanking

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Harry Potter and the Muggle Activists

Harry Potter is filled with a childlike magic that plays out in a world whose "dark and difficult times" often mirror those of our society

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Katrina Through Rose-Colored Glasses

Race does matter in the caustic caldron of the post-Katrina era--the world still perceives us as "refugees"--permanently scarred victims to be forever adrift in tragedy

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The Left’s Identity Crisis

What does it mean to be a progressive in 2007? What do we stand for? What do we believe in?

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Survival of the Adapted

The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory takes the theory of evolution--"survival of the fittest," a phrase that appeared only in a later printing of Charles Darwin's classic text--and, in alternating chapters, juxtaposes the relationship between Darwin and fellow biologist Alfred Russel Wallace with Fries' curiosity about his own adaptations to a world unprepared for his body and his means of motion

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The Politics of Everyday

The political changes for which we've striven have made a material difference in the way women conceive of their lives, writes Katha Pollitt in Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories

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The Times vs. Feminism

The Book Review's recent nasty review of Katha Pollitt's memoir is only the latest in a long line of outlandish attacks on feminists

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No Happy Endings

Escape from North Korea, the world's most repressive regime

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Creating the 21st Century Library

The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls "a map of my brain"

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The Secret Lives of Plutocrats

In Richistan, Robert Frank offers a breezy, well-observed peek into this gated community. You too could visit if you graduate from "butler boot camp" and become a $120,000-a-year "household manager"

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The Kids Aren’t Alright

Daniel Brook's The Trap reminds us that inequality is bad for everyone, rich and poor

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Forget the Foundations

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded shows how nonprofit fundraising hinders radical movements

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Curiosity and a Cat Named Studs

Legendary Chicago writer Studs Terkel celebrates 95 years on May 16, and a new book this fall

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Last Interview

The late, great author on family, freethinkers and the entertainment in Indiana

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Thank You Mr. Vonnegut

With the April 11 death of Senior Editor Kurt Vonnegut, In These Times lost a dear friend. And the… more

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