| Excerpt: | Fourth installment in a series examining a white supremacist text published in 1896 that can help us understand what's happening today. Sometimes, it's in the awfully done that we can see a point of view most clearly. |
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| Published at: | 12:00 PM on Monday, August 24th, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Media & Culture, Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Instructive Bad Reading, Lessons from History |
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Category Archives: Views & Reviews
Instructive bad reading, Part IV: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”
Instructive bad reading, Part III: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”
| Excerpt: | Third installment in a series examining a white supremacist text published in 1896 that can help us understand what's happening today. Sometimes, it's in the awfully done that we can see a point of view most clearly. |
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| Published at: | 8:15 PM on Sunday, August 23rd, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Media & Culture, Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Instructive Bad Reading, Lessons from History |
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Instructive bad reading, Part I: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”
| Excerpt: | First installment in a series examining a white supremacist text published in 1896 that can help us understand what's happening today. Sometimes, it's in the awfully done that we can see a point of view most clearly. |
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| Published at: | 8:15 PM on Friday, August 21st, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Media & Culture, Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Instructive Bad Reading, Lessons from History |
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Book Review: “Dawn of the Code War” looks at the modern age’s cyber battlegrounds
| Excerpt: | Former Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin and journalist Garrett Graff's book focuses on the new challenges posed by cyber threats to national security. |
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| Published at: | 5:00 PM on Monday, June 8th, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Technology |
| Tags: | Books, Hacking |
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Documentary Review: “Race to Nowhere” may be ten years old, but it has aged well
| Excerpt: | Vicki Abeles created this documentary film to bring attention to some of the problems with the American education system. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Sunday, January 19th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Education, Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Film, Professional Pay, School Funding, Testing & Evaluation |
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Documentary Reviews: “Guest House”, “John Mendez: The Bridge”, and “Faith in Action”
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's reviews of the three films featured at the October 4th Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle, concerning homelessness and rejoining society after incarceration. |
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| Published at: | 6:00 PM on Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Film |
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Documentary Review: “Raise Hell” is a fun and inspiring portrait of journalist Molly Ivins
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of the 2019 documentary film that tells the story of Texas' best known columnist and advocacy journalist. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Saturday, September 28th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Film |
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Documentary Review: “The Great Hack” shows how data insecurity impacts elections
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of The Great Hack, an essential, must-see film breaking down what happened to our democracy in the 2016 presidential election. |
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| Published at: | 9:00 PM on Sunday, September 1st, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Elections, Technology |
| Tags: | Brexit, Digital Freedom, Films, Privacy |
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Book Review: We can still make “A Bright Future” with nuclear energy
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of A Bright Future, a book that discusses how some countries have tackled the climate crisis and how the rest could follow. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Sunday, June 30th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Books, Climate Crisis, Energy & Power |
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SIFF Documentary Review: Reconnect to the effort to save Alaska’s salmon with The Wild
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of The Wild, a new film by Mark Titus that examines the renewed campaign to stop the proposed Pebble Mine from inflicting massive damage on Alaska's Bristol Bay. |
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| Published at: | 7:03 PM on Sunday, June 16th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Our Environment |
| Tags: | Conservation, Seattle International Film Festival |
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Book Review: With “No One at the Wheel”, the rich can steal the roads from us — if we let them
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of No One At The Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future by Samuel Schwartz. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 PM on Saturday, June 15th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Views & Reviews |
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SIFF Documentary Review: Our Bodies Our Doctors is a timely reminder of the importance of reproductive rights
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Our Bodies Our Doctors, a film about reproductive rights that's being screened at the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival. |
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| Published at: | 6:11 PM on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Film, Reproductive Rights, Seattle International Film Festival |
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Book Review: In the U.S., the desire to “Break It Up” is more American than America itself