A new history of the civil rights movement gets a lot right but falls short in trying to reframe the story.
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Cyborgs on the Highways
A new book details the extreme forms of surveillance imposed on long-haul truckers, robbing them of their power.
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The Corruption of the Legal Profession
A new book shows how corporate law firms bear great responsibility for the degradation of the rule of law.
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Altercation: The American—and Jewish—Divide Over Israel
My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.
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Altercation: Wenner Fake All (Well, Much)
The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.
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A Progressive, and Persuasive, Case for a Politics of Persuasion
Anand Giridharadas’s ‘The Persuaders’ profiles activists, organizers, and change-makers charting a path to power through changing minds and ‘calling in.’
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Altercation: Maggie Haberman’s New Book Puts Trump in Context
The surprisingly good ‘Confidence Man’ actually makes sense of Trump’s rise and his ability to twist the media to his will.
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Confronting Latino Anti-Black Bias
Civil rights lawyer Tanya Katerí Hernández takes up a sensitive but critical subject.
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The Possible World After Globalism
If we can dethrone the reign of Big Finance and Big Tech, what new worlds can we imagine?
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How American Politics Turned Deadly
The explosive consequences of the realignment of the two major parties
