Read NPI alum Patrick Stickney’s assessment of the oral argument in Quinn et al v. State of Washington et al, the right wing legal challenge to Washington State’s new capital gains tax on the wealthy.
Category: Views & Reviews
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Book Review: Not-so-hidden racism and profit define the sickness of “American Healthcare”
Read NPI’s review of The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich, by Thom Hartmann.
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Book Review: It’s worth “Demystifying Shariah” instead of continuing with our ignorant prejudices
Read NPI’s review of Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It’s Not Taking Over Our Country by Sumbul Ali-Karamali.
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Book Review: In the U.S., the desire to “Break It Up” is more American than America itself
Read NPI’s review of Break It Up by Richard Kreitner (Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union).
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Instructive bad reading, Part IV: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”
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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Instructive bad reading, Part III: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”
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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Instructive bad reading, Part I: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”
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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Book Review: “Dawn of the Code War” looks at the modern age’s cyber battlegrounds
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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Documentary Review: “Race to Nowhere” may be ten years old, but it has aged well
Vicki Abeles created this documentary film to bring attention to some of the problems with the American education system.
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Documentary Reviews: “Guest House”, “John Mendez: The Bridge”, and “Faith in Action”
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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Documentary Review: “Raise Hell” is a fun and inspiring portrait of journalist Molly Ivins
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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Documentary Review: “The Great Hack” shows how data insecurity impacts elections
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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Documentary Review: “Knock Down the House” inspires with stories of working people running for Congress
Read NPI’s review of “Knock Down the House”, a documentary now streaming on Netflix about a few of last year’s trailblazing congressional candidates, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Book Review: We can still make “A Bright Future” with nuclear energy
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.