The Media as War Junkies
Jake Whitney reviews The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan, by Michael Hastings.
View ArticleWashington’s Pepe LePew
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral--Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!--in America's Gilded CapitalBy Mark LeibovichBlue Rider Press. 386 pages. $27.95.In the summer of 2011, President Obama geared up for...
View ArticleWarmaking at Its Most Immoral
In May 2005, Colonel Theodore Westhusing, a West Point professor of English and Philosophy who was serving in Iraq, received an anonymous letter.
View ArticleThe Spirit of Occupy is Alive: An Interview with Kalle Lasn
"The Billion People March and a whole bunch of other initiatives that are happening around the world—is because the spirit of Occupy is alive."
View ArticleSupreme Opportunity? Law Prof Sees High Court Opening as a Teachable Moment
Much of Teachout’s career has been spent as an ideological adversary of Scalia’s.
View ArticleWhat the Verizon Strike Really Means
"Basically the company can say to workers as it says to its customers: take it or leave it.”
View ArticleZephyr Teachout's Push for Reform
Do voters care passionately about corruption and campaign finance reform? Teachout is adamant that they do.
View ArticleWounded beyond PTSD: War Trauma and “Moral Injury”
War forever changes the men and women we send to fight. Can traumatized veterans ever fully recover?
View ArticleWhy Is Dark Money Spending so Much on Neil Gorsuch?
We'll likely never know, but the maximally conservative record of the Supreme Court nominee provides some answers. Journalist Jake Whitney talks with law professor Zephyr Teachout in search of clues.
View ArticleKeeping the Poor Poor: How Government Automates Inequality
Virginia Eubanks’ new book “Automating Inequality” looks at how automated eligibility systems “profile, police, and punish” the poor.
View ArticleWhy It’s Worth Reading Comey’s ‘A Higher Loyalty’
While much of the media attention on the book focused on Comey’s digs at Trump, there is much more to it.
View ArticleThe Drift Toward Oligarchy
In Paul Krugman’s new book, the economist explains how and why we’re headed in that direction—which makes for a stirring and eye-opening read.
View ArticleWe Don't Need No Corporation
Shortly after announcing her candidacy for President, Elizabeth Warren appeared on MSNBC to discuss her plan to break up the Big Tech companies.
View ArticleCrime is a Symptom of Injustice
New book shows that, to prove once and for all that Black lives matter, Americans must stop ignoring the violence devastating Black communities.
View Article‘It’s Up to Us’: New Book on Climate Explains Why It’s Not Too Late to Save...
Michael Mann’s “The New Climate War” challenges the idea that we’re out of time to stop the worst effects of climate change.
View ArticleThere Is No Such Thing as a Humane War
New book sounds an alarm about a future in which death and destruction is replaced by “domination and surveillance.”
View Article‘We Have to Reduce Corporate Power’
An interview with professor and activist Zephyr Teachout.
View ArticleIt Can Happen Here
In his new book, The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century, Moisés Naím contends that authoritarian power is on the rise globally, and he admonishes citizens to...
View Article‘Fear and Confusion’: A Tale of Internment
An interview with Marielle Tsukamoto, a survivor of the U.S. camps.
View ArticleThe Town that Trump Made
Mark Leibovich’s new book “Thank You for Your Servitude” focuses on the GOP blowhards who became Trump loyalists.
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