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Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now

by Vincent Ialenti · 22 Sep 2020 · 224pp · 69,593 words

how they grappled with futures near and deep. I chatted with physicists, engineers, geologists, mathematicians, hydrologists, artists, computer modelers, industry lobbyists, managers, chemists, finance professionals, activists, lawyers, politicians, academics, and others. I ended up recording 121 interviews with people who worked on or had something special to say about Finland’s nuclear

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas · 27 Aug 2018 · 296pp · 98,018 words

the topic of women’s equality. The diverse stakeholders turned out to be three corporate executives and one UN man. There were no feminist thinkers, activists, lawyers, elected leaders, labor organizers, or other varietals of women-savers on the panel. Serious feminists might have found this slate of experts problematic, but it

Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted

by Daniel Sokatch · 18 Oct 2021 · 556pp · 95,955 words

, I hope to tell of the changes I helped bring about in my country.* MUTASIM ALI, 34—Sudanese Political Asylum Seeker to Israel, Immigrant Rights Activist, Lawyer, and Refugee I was raised by a loving father and mother in Darfur, a region of Sudan. From the time I was five years old

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement

by Amy Lang and Daniel Lang/levitsky · 11 Jun 2012 · 537pp · 99,778 words

students of Paris, had found the Answers. Painfully, we discovered that was not the case. We are all in this together. Staughton Lynd Longtime US activist, lawyer, historian and author. THE BEGINNING IS NEAR Foreword All of the writing and images we have included in this collection were created and circulated by

Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

by Adam Jentleson · 12 Jan 2021 · 400pp · 108,843 words

Citizens United, did not come up with the idea for it on their own. Instead, the idea came from the prominent Federalist Society member and activist lawyer James Bopp Jr., who drafted the lawsuit for them. The case “was really Jim’s brainchild,” according to Richard Hasen, an election law expert at

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre · 18 Jan 2023

percent in 2019 before the novel coronavirus pandemic. But for some, Xi’s Chinese dream is a nightmare. Xi has increased repression of human rights activists, lawyers, political dissidents, and journalists. Arbitrary arrest, detention, and torture are common tools of the Chinese party-state for maintaining political control. The paradox of China

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in 2019: “GDP Growth (Annual %)—China,” World Bank, 2020, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=CN. 87repression of human rights activists, lawyers, political dissidents, and journalists: “China: Events of 2018,” Human Rights Watch, 2018, https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/china-and-tibet; “Human

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

by Judith Stein · 30 Apr 2010 · 497pp · 143,175 words

the traditional working class as agents of change. Nader did not organize consumers. His various public interest groups were not mass organizations but groups of activist lawyers. Nader’s anticorporatism was a mindset, not a political program. In the final analysis, both Kahn and Nader believed that competition would solve all economic

The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth

by Fred Pearce · 28 May 2012 · 379pp · 114,807 words

particular hit trouble in 2011, with locals refusing to give up land and complaining that the company was engaged in illegal clearing. Alfred Brownell, the activist lawyer, had become involved. In October, an appeal to the industry watchdog, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, brought a promise that the company would “cease

Vanishing New York

by Jeremiah Moss · 19 May 2017 · 479pp · 140,421 words

frontier.” In 2005, the City Council approved Bloomberg’s plan to rezone the Port Morris section of the Bronx to increase residential and retail development. Activist lawyers and artists fought for half of all new housing to be low-income, but Amanda Burden “objected successfully that such set-asides would have discouraged

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

by Lizabeth Cohen · 30 Sep 2019

at Brandeis; Robert Goodman, an assistant professor of architecture at MIT; Chester Hartman, an assistant professor of city planning at Harvard; Daniel Klubock, a young activist lawyer; James Morey, the full-time UPA executive director, who, as a psychologist and a systems analyst, had recently left the defense industry in disillusionment; Lisa