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A Girl in Her Heart
By Sim Butler, author of And the Dragons Do Come When my almost seven-year-old child started articulating her transgender identity, she didn’t have the words to describe what she was ...
The New Press Remembers Zoë Wicomb
ZOË WICOMB November 23, 1948-October 13, 2025 The New Press is deeply saddened to note the passing of renowned writer and academic Zoë Wicomb, one of the most significant authors ...
Breaking Unions, Breaking Laws
By Dave Kamper, author of Who's Got the Power? In Milwaukee, in 1886, just a day after the infamous Haymarket Bombing in Chicago, a group of workers and their families, ...
The New Press Remembers Robert Jay Lifton
ROBERT JAY LIFTON May 16, 1926 – September 4, 2025 The New Press is deeply saddened to note the passing of psychiatrist, public intellectual, and award-winning author Robert Jay Lifton ...
12 Books to Read for National Translation Month
September marks National Translation Month, a time to celebrate international literature and the art and impact of translation in bridging cultures, preserving stories, and fostering global understanding. Behind every translated ...
Learning from Our Organizing Past
By Erik Loomis, author of Organizing America Anyone reading this site knows how messed up America is today. Most of us also know something about our organizing past. We know that ...
14 Books on Labor and Organizing to Read for Labor Day
The first Labor Day parade took place in New York City on September 5th, 1882 as a demonstration for workers' rights. Twelve years later, it was signed into a law ...
Ferguson and the Legacy of Black August
By Stefan M. Bradley, author of If We Don't Get It At this time of intense state repression and government overreach, we have much to learn from the young leaders ...
Feeding the World vs. Feeding People
By Stephanie Anderson “Feed the world.” I grew up hearing this phrase, usually in the context of agriculture. “Farmers and ranchers feed the world,” I heard in newspapers, TV, and ...
Discussion Guide: COPAGANDA by Alec Karakatsanis
Discussion Guide for Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our NewsBy Alec Karakatsanis This discussion guide is designed to support classrooms, book clubs, and reading groups engaging with Alec ...
A Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Reading List
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a literary titan. In a career that spanned decades and genres—from fiction to criticism, memoir to plays—his writing engaged with issues of political courage, resistance and ...
The New Press Remembers Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O January 5, 1938-May 28, 2025 The New Press is deeply saddened to note the passing of our beloved author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, one of the giants of ...
Discussion Guide: WAR MADE INVISIBLE by Norman Solomon
Discussion Guide for War Made Invisible By Norman Solomon This discussion guide is designed to support classrooms, book clubs, and reading groups engaging with Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible, a ...
Narratives of Identity, Culture, and Connection: An Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage Month Reading List
By Shalra Azeem, Spring 2025 Intern Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Month is a time to reflect on the experiences, culture, and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders throughout ...
Honoring Studs Terkel: Celebrating Our Award-Winning Books
As we mark what would have been the 113th birthday of legendary author, oral historian, and radio broadcaster Studs Terkel, we take a moment to celebrate the powerful legacy of ...
Looking for federal data? Go local.
Looking for federal data? Go local. A Sunshine Week reminder that local governments have a lot of federal data, too THIS BLOG WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE CONTRARIAN ON MAR ...
Don’t Blame DEI for the American Airlines Crash
Don’t Blame DEI for the American Airlines Crash By Thomas O. McGarity With an astonishing lack of grace, President Donald Trump has suggested that the recent collision of a military ...
Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025
Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025 By Rita Goldberg My mother, Hilde Jacobsthal Goldberg, grew up mostly in Amsterdam when her family moved there from Berlin in 1929. She ...
What Happens in Lithium Valley
What Happens in Lithium Valley . . . By Manuel Pastor* In a dusty corner of southeastern California, the contradictions and tensions of our move from a fossil fuel past ...
Earth Day Reading List
By Shalra Azeem, Spring 2025 Intern 10 Books to Read and Look Forward to this Earth Day Earth Day is celebrated by more than a billion people globally. With each ...
Reading Lifton: Catastrophe, Cults, and Climate
By Shalra Azeem, Spring 2025 Intern National Book Award–winning author Robert Jay Lifton is a pioneer of the field of psychohistory. Psychohistory is a field of study that blends psychology, ...
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. worked to transform American society. The impact of his legacy reverberates today, posing fundamental questions about the unresolved problems he confronted. Born on January 15, 1929 ...
70 Years On: How We’ve Thought About the Unions
By Nelson Lichtenstein, co-author of Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today Labor’s Partisans is a retrospective on the evolution of the labor movement, as it ...
The Story of Immigrant Rights Activist Jeanette Vizguerra
By Arjun Singh Sethi Immigration authorities detained longtime immigrant rights activist, Jeanette Vizguerra, in Denver last week. Jeanette has lived in Colorado for more than twenty years and is at ...
