Read NPI’s review of Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, by Nomi Prins
Author Archives: David A Johnson
Book Review: The real “Good News About Bad Behavior” is that the kids are already alright
Read NPI’s review of The Good News About Bad Behavior by Kathleen Reynolds Lewis.
Book Review: “The Bone and Sinew of the Land” recovers some American history that actually has been erased
Read NPI’s review of Anna-Lisa Cox’s new book The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality.
Book Review: No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore burns bright and goes out too soon
It’s a rare thing for a book to conclude and the reader’s biggest complaint be that there quite wasn’t enough of it. Yet, that’s what Darnell L. Moore accomplished with his memoir No Ashes in the Fire.
Book Review: Barbara Ehrenreich is old enough to die, but still has plenty to say
Read NPI’s review of “Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer” by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Book Review: Read “Inventing Ourselves” to learn about the latest brain science research
Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s book Inventing Ourselves is a fascinating examination of what recent decades of technological progress and investigation have shown us about the teenage brain.
Book Review: Author Christian Davenport, for one, welcomes our new “Space Barons”
Read NPI’s review of The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos, by Christian Davenport.
At Everett Library, crowd gathers to discuss Trump, fascism, and white supremacism
Read NPI’s recap of yesterday’s symposium on right wing extremism with investigative journalists David Neiwert and Scott North, titled The Radical Right and Its Effects on Communities.
Book Review: “Fifty Million Rising” explains how women are changing the Muslim world
Saadia Zahidi’s look at the cohort of “The Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World” doesn’t contradict itself, but it is large and containing multitudes. It couldn’t be anything less and still true, spanning as it does thirty Muslim-majority countries from North Africa all the way to Southeast Asia.
The curious logic of Professor Adam Carroll
NPI’s David Johnson responds to Professor Adam Carroll’s New York Times Upshot post arguing that preventative care doesn’t actually save money.
Book Review: The airing of grievances in Donna Brazile’s “Hacks” comes at her true crime memoir’s expense
Read NPI’s review of Donna Brazile’s Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. The book has been portrayed in the mass media as a juicy tell-all, but a good chunk of it is actually a cybersecurity clinic that’s worth reading.
Book Review: David Neiwert’s “Alt-America” is a very necessary — but difficult — read
Read NPI’s review of Alt-America, local author David Neiwert’s well-researched book about the rise of the radical right in the Trump error.
Book Review: Morgan Simon’s “Real Impact” is a guide to socially responsible investing
Read NPI’s review of Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change by impact investor Morgan Simon.
LIVE from Seattle: Hillary Clinton comes to the Paramount to discuss “What Happened?”
Hillary Clinton is in the Emerald City for the Seattle stop of her What Happened? book tour. Read NPI’s take on her appearance at the Paramount Theatre.