Blog / Editor's Choice

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

A free press is foundational to a free society. We have gone too far in trading ours for the Silicon Valley notion that information wants to be free, even as Silicon Valley has built some of the world’s largest, most monopolistic corporations monetizing that supposedly “free” information.

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American Aristocracy

By Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn

Researchers have found that … in countries around the world, the accumulation of wealth also often leads to accumulation of political power that is then harnessed to multiply that wealth. Indeed, that’s what we’re seeing in America.

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Books to Watch | July 7, 2020

By Porchlight

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The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming

By Porchlight

The first hopeful book about climate change, THE FUTURE EARTH shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.

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The Declaration of Independence

By Porchlight

The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. For all the high ideals he provided the document and our country, he was also, like the majority of signatories to the Declaration, a slave owner. There were also ardent abolitionists in the group that signed the document, but they were outnumbered. It is representative of the contradiction and conflict between America’s original sin and its original promise that still courses through our lives and politics today.

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Books to Watch | June 30, 2020

By Porchlight

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Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Using Authority, Warmth, and Energy to Get Exceptional Results

By Porchlight

One of the nation's premier talent agents and career advisors shows you how to catapult your career and your life forward with three key communication strategies—Authority, Warmth, and Energy.

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Cookbook Roundup: Bread

Book Review by Blyth Meier

Ten of the best recent-ish bread cookbooks feature choices for every level of baker, from the very new to the most experienced.

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This Town Sleeps

Book Review by Roy Normington

Dennis E. Staples blends history, native culture, family secrets, and personal identity seamlessly while keeping readers guessing in this new novel.

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Mockingbird Players: An Excerpt from Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By Bryan Stevenson

I was in my late twenties and about to start my fourth year at the SPDC when I met Walter McMillian. His case was one of the flood of cases I’d found myself frantically working on after learning of a growing crisis in Alabama. The state had nearly a hundred people on death row as well as the fastest-growing condemned population in the country, but it also had no public defender system, which meant that large numbers of death row prisoners had no legal representation of any kind.