Since the women’s movement of the 1960s, women have become increasingly successful in the workplace, reaching to new levels of influence and power in all areas of industry,... Read More

“War is a powerful aphrodisiac,” John V. H. Dippel writes. In this rich, far-reaching study of armed conflict since Abraham Lincoln’s time, Dippel discusses gender,... Read More

Author Michael Parenti offers compelling historical evidence that the world’s religions have “served as instruments for promoting intolerance, autocracy, and atrocity,”... Read More

In this recapitulation of the universe’s evolutionary thrust-and humanity’s part in it-Howard Bloom proves to be a provocative, even an inspiring, thinker. But he is not... Read More

For decades, the weekly New Yorker has been renowned for its “drawings”—the cartoons that reduce complex social and political situations to humorous line-drawing... Read More

The American public knew more about Wynona Ryder’s shoplifting trial than it did about the history of U.S. involvement in Iraq. Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored,... Read More

John A. Walker Jr., one of America’s most notorious spies, is incarcerated in the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, where he is serving a life sentence. In 1985,... Read More

Ten thousand years ago the human connection to animals changed when people began domesticating them for food and labor, establishing dominance and control. Today humans still... Read More

Although early twenty-five percent of U.S. children suffer from depression, fewer than twenty percent of emotionally troubled children in this country receive help. Yet the vast... Read More

Albert Einstein once remarked that “imagination is more important than knowledge,” and for this author, imagination is even more important than that: she believes it is the... Read More

In a state of suspended unease, America awaits the next terrorist attack. Lest people have begun to relax in the nearly three years that have elapsed since 9/11, the author... Read More

“I always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action,” asserts Zinn, a controversial historian. Zinn’s fifteen books,... Read More