BOOK REVIEW | 'Nomadland' looks at RV- and van-dwelling travelers in search for a place to park their lives The headlines may talk about growth, but we are living in a dark economic era. For most families, income and wealth have stagnated in rec ...
15 Jun 2018 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | Author Patrick Phillips delves into the violent past of the county in Georgia where he grew up Check out the website for Forsyth County, Ga. Looks pleasant and picturesque, “a great place to call home and do business” and not too far from At ...
18 May 2018 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | Former Salon editor David Daley documents how Republicans are using technology to ensure gerrymandered victories Ratfucked! A raw epithet that goes back to the 1920s. Five decades later, it became a favorite of Richard Nixon’s dirty trickste ...
29 Dec 2017 - Joe Martin
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
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
Book Review: “Demand the Impossible! A Radical Manifesto” by Bill Ayers and “Struggling for the Soul of Our Country” by Preston Browning Jr. It’s the stuff of daily news. Christian Parenti, author of 2011’s “Tropic of Chaos,” refers to the “catastrophic c ...
16 Feb 2017 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | 'The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government,' by David Talbot In 1947, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the National Security Council and the CIA. Thu ...
20 Dec 2016 - Joe Martin
COMMENTARY | During 22 months of incarceration, Joe Hill became an intrepid symbol of struggling workers On Nov. 19, 1915, an innocent man was killed by firing squad. The state of Utah determined that immigrant laborer Joe Hill had murdered two people. Wh ...
8 Mar 2016 - Joe Martin
The novel ‘At the Center’ portrays the vagaries of a bureaucratic system responsible for addressing society’s ills Sixty-year-old Sylvia Jensen is a veteran social worker and supervisor of a crucial program responsible for the placement of vulnerable chil ...
12 Nov 2015 - Joe Martin
Book review: 'Giant's Causeway' by Tom Chaffin Frederick Douglass is a colossal presence on America’s 19th-century stage. An impressive black man, his electrifying oratory excoriated the injustice of slavery polluting this nation’s avowed a ...
27 Aug 2015 - Joe Martin