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Growing Old in American Cities

The old men and women in Stacy Torres’s new book, At Home in the Big City: Growing Old in Urban America, (UC Press; $29.95), are not like the...

03.02.2025 6

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Let Resistance Be the Order of the Day: MLK Day in San Francisco, January 19, 2025

A day before Donald Trump’s inauguration and the same day that—thousands of miles away— hostages were released in Gaza, the Third Baptist Church...

20.01.2025 2

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The Abbie and Amy Show

It wasn’t Abbie Hoffman’s finest moment. But it was one of them. It was a critical moment in 1987 when he and the daughter of a president protested...

02.01.2025 4

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Christmas Carnage: Netflix’s Black Doves

Crime series all boast violence, and, while some of the violence is abhorrent and gratuitous some of it is framed as necessary and justified. In...

18.12.2024 5

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Report from a Campfire of the Resistance, San Francisco 2024

The dust had not yet settled around the White House and the foul air had not yet cleared from above the nation’s capital, but the campfires of the...

29.11.2024 5

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The Precarious Precariat & the Garrison State

If the Garrison State isn’t already here, it’s sure to be here very soon. Wait and watch and observe the arrival of a suped-up American political...

21.11.2024 20

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The N-Word: Still Troublesome After all These Years

The N-word appears sparingly in James, Percival Everett’s 2024 novel that reinvents the escaped slave narrative while it recycles Mark Twain’s The...

06.09.2024 3

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