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Will The World Come To An End?

Moments after Steve Kornacki paused slightly then continued reeling off percentages in whatever county in whichever swing state had just committed to Trump my iPhone and media feeds started going berserk. “We are doomed!” screamed...

Crucial Commodities: Metal & Sand

Vince Beiser – Power Metal – The Race For The Resources That Will Shape Our Future An Australian millionaire’s plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A...

The Beautiful Mysterious Conversation With Keeley Moss

“My name is Keeley Moss. I’m a writer, singer and musician from Dublin, the city Inga Maria Hauser was trying to reach on the night she was murdered.” The opening lines to The Keeley Chronicles...

Counting The True Costs Of War – Gaza Update. Antisocial – Boundaries Erased.

Norman Solomon – War Made Invisible: How America Hides The Human Toll Of Its Military Machine The paperback edition of War Made Invisible is now available, Norman Solomon has written an Afterword about the Gaza...

Judicial Wit. The Meticulous Killer. Emotive Music

Jill Barton – The Supreme Guide To Writing Jill Barton’s unbridled enthusiasm for writing and the law is evident from the moment we start chatting, plus she is blessed with a winning smile. And, there’s...
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Blue Graffiti. The Bird Way.

Calahan Skogman – Blue Graffiti He is proud to be from a small town in middle-of-nowhere Midwestern America. And he wants you to know why. With his debut novel, Blue Graffiti, Calahan Skogman relishes in...

Two Minutes That Changed History

A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of...

Pets: Two Perspectives

Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America’s Forgotten People and Pets – Carol Mithers Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time—poverty and homelessness—in asking the question: Who deserves...

Black Women’s Empowerment

Drawn from research conducted over the course of a decade, education scholar Rachelle Winkle Wagner elevates in The Chosen We : Black Women’s Empowerment In Higher Education the experiences and oral histories of 105 accomplished,...

Two Disturbing Books. An Impressive Movie. Plaintive New Music.

“The Most Consequential Election, Ever!” The headlines are trumpeting as we hurtle closer to November 5th. However, almost four years ago, the prospect of a second Trump term was equally alarming. In this edition, we...

A Conversation With Hence

Daryl Bamonte met Knuth at the Act in Synch inaugural event in Berlin, September 2023. Over lunch they quickly realized they had an affinity for electronic music, especially the vast catalogue of Depeche Mode. As...

America’s Evolution and John Quincy Adams. New Classical Music

Randall Woods – John Quincy Adams – A Man for the Whole People In his masterful biography, professor of history, Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy’s long life, exposing a...

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