It is rare to get an intelligent, well-sourced and coherent discussion of issues today such as the role of history in education, politics and scholarship, but David Detmer of Purdue University Northwest has provided such with this book
Observations from a Week in the Philippines, July 21-27, 2018, and Possible Ramifications
Engaging with this book will help each of us further think out what we want to see in the future
A review of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, by Jane F. McAlevey
How do progressives build power to counter attacks from the top of society while building the kind of society we’d each like to live in?
Students tell the Indiana Department of Environmental Management: Gary is not a dump
A review of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power, by Alfred W. McCoy
Any labor organization must be built on member democracy, where members control the union, and not just the formal leaders
in 2016, union membership was only 6.4 percent of workers in the private sector, and 34.4 percent of the public sector, giving an overall percentage of 10.7 percent
Review of A Great Vision: A Militant Family’s Journey Through the 20th Century, by Richard March
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