BOOK REVIEW | Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus’ 'A World of Three Zeros' is focused on solutions It’s important to start with the realization that poverty is not caused by poor people.” Let me rephrase Muhammad Yunus, author of “A Wo ...
6 Apr 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | In 'The Vanishing American Corporation,' Gerald F. Davis argues today's severe income inequality is a result of a decline in corporations If you’re feeling shut off from the workforce, meaningful career advancement, or the abi ...
23 Feb 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,” by Cathy O’Neil If you’ve been denied job after job, even some of those entry-level, low-wage positions, Cathy O’Neil can explain. If the rates you’re ...
1 Sep 2017 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | “Unf#ck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-outs, and Triggers” by Faith G. Harper Faith G. Harper is an experienced mental health provider. She is a trauma-informed therapist; a licensed clinician with ce ...
25 Aug 2017 - Meredith Mathis
BOOK REVIEW | 'Thinking Machines' by Luke Dormehl This time is different. In the six decades since the first colloquium on artificial intelligence (AI) at Dartmouth College, periodic predictions about changes implied by AI often proved to be ent ...
19 Jul 2017 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left,’ by Jeffery Webber In the early 2000s, South America was a beacon of hope for developing nations. In country after country ...
30 Jun 2017 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | 'How to Make White People Laugh' uses comedy to tackle social justice issues It may be possible to change the world one joke at a time. At least, that’s the thrust of Iranian-American comic Negin Farsad's May 24 release, a boo ...
19 May 2017 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | “Ugly: My Memoir,” by Robert Hoge He was born ugly. How ugly was he? Maybe that sounds like the setup to a joke, but the punch line isn’t funny. He was so ugly his mother wanted to abandon him in the hospital. She said to his father, “Perhap ...
27 Apr 2017 - Susan Storer Clark
John Edgar Wideman’s new book explores the injustice delivered to Emmett Till’s father The tragic story of Emmett Till still shocks the conscience of our nation. It was the summer of 1955. Fourteen years of age, Emmett was a good natured black adolescent ...
20 Apr 2017 - Joe Martin
Journalist Alison Flowers follows four exonerees whose lost opportunities and struggles to rebuild their lives left them feeling trapped even after their release from prison More than 2.3 million people are being held in state and federal correctional fac ...
13 Oct 2016 - Katherine Luck