Tag: Books

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Book Review: “Fifty Million Rising” explains how women are changing the Muslim world

by David A Johnson

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.

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Book Review: Bernie Sanders’ “Guide to Political Revolution” aims to be teen resource

by David A Johnson

Democ­rats still get into argu­ments about the mer­its (or lack there­of) of Hillary Clin­ton’s and Bernie Sanders’ can­di­da­cies for the 2016 Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­na­tion. It’s why many of us on the left con­tin­ue, inex­orably, view­ing con­tem­po­rary events as a chance to re-lit­i­­gate that con­test and who was right. To say that Bernie Sanders: Guide to […]

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Book Review: Read Zoë Quinn’s “Crash Override” to understand the Trump error

by David A Johnson

Read Crash Over­ride to under­stand what can be done now as we live with forms of intim­i­da­tion and harass­ment that nev­er could have exist­ed pri­or to the advent of an always on, Inter­net-con­nect­ed cul­ture — and what we still need to do as a soci­ety to con­front and stamp out these tox­ic behaviors.

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Book Review: Laura Spinney’s Pale Rider re-examines the biggest tragedy of the 1900s

by David A Johnson

It’s become a stan­dard bit of twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry triv­ia that as ter­ri­ble as the First World War was, the 1918 flu pan­dem­ic coin­cid­ing with the armistice killed more than the con­flict itself. Now, an espe­cial­ly pedan­tic per­son might want to argue that WWI real­ly was the begin­ning of the ‘Sec­ond Thir­ty Years War’. They might treat as […]

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Book Review: Lynda V. Mapes’ Witness Tree makes for pleasant summertime reading

by David A Johnson

If human­i­ty does­n’t imme­di­ate­ly reduce our emis­sions of car­bon diox­ide, methane, and oth­er cli­­mate-war­m­ing air pol­lu­tants, glob­al tem­per­a­tures could rise by as much as 11.5 degrees Fahren­heit by the end of the cen­tu­ry, accord­ing to the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Pan­el on Cli­mate Change’s most pes­simistic fore­casts. For some rea­son, this knowl­edge isn’t as fright­en­ing to us as […]

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LIVE from Seattle’s U District: Bernie Sanders joins supporters to discuss Our Revolution

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening from the Uni­ver­si­ty Dis­trict, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the Seat­tle stop of Bernie Sanders’ Our Rev­o­lu­tion book tour. Sen­a­tor Sanders is join­ing a packed house of sup­port­ers at Uni­ver­si­ty Tem­ple Unit­ed Methodist Church to pro­mote his recen­t­­ly-released book and talk about the direc­tion of the pro­gres­sive move­ment as Amer­i­ca enters […]