Bargaining for Eden, Stephen Trimble’s newest book, follows citizens in two communities grappling with change on extraordinary public lands in their backyards. Conflict grows from the tension between grassroots values and greed, …
Read More >Colbert Report, August 19 I was interviewed on the Colbert Report about sugar policy, of all things. U.S. sugar policy is so absurd that I did not think it could be satirized, …
Read More >By Margarita Mooney author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora What do religious narratives have to do with the adaptation of immigrants from the poorest country …
Read More >Kasra Naji, the author of Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader, was a guest on NPR’s Morning Edition this week. In a conversation with Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep, Naji recalled …
Read More >Rawhide is an unlikely name for someone who does any good in the world. Also known as the much-loved Ronald Reagan, the man whose Secret Service code shares a name with a …
Read More >September is a month with dualing personalities. Kids see it as the evil incarnation of back-to-school, also spelled the-end-of-hope-and-light. Adults, on the other hand, drop off their little darlings and smile gleefully …
Read More >University of California Press and JSTOR, the leading journals archive hosting platform, are pleased to announce their partnership in the Current Scholarship Program, which will bring legacy and current content from all …
Read More >From 1934-1963, the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island housed America’s most notorious gangsters, bank robbers, kidnappers, and other public enemies, and the guards who controlled their every move. Marooned on the island, …
Read More >Columbia College graduate, Fulbright professor, book critic, published author and poet. As if all these titles did not suffice, Jonah Raskin had to go and add farm worker and reporter to his …
Read More >“Enthusiasm, patience and sunblock” is what Robert Flynn Johnson credits with keeping him going in the never-ending search for anonymous photographs. On June 24, the author of The Face in the Lens: …
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