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White Supremacy Rising – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

White Supremacy Rising Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist (New York: Doubleday, 2018). I am only beginning...
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When Editors Let Trump Decide –An Excerpt

By Ron Verzuh

Jill Lepore has shown herself to be one of America’s more insightful, probing, and analytical writer-historians. Her latest article in The New Yorker (January...
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Old People’s Socialist League

By Ron Verzuh

Socialism with hope . . . and good humor, too. Those who recall chuckling their way through John’s Sayles’s 1979 story The Anarchists’ Convention...
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Signs of Bad Times – Living in America Series

By Ron Verzuh

A scan of New York Times headlines for July 8, 2018, reveals several signs of deteriorating times. So much for mother’s milk The United States...
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Mad Man of B.C. Advertising – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

Robin Brunet, Let’s Get Frank: Canada’s Mad Man of Advertising(Madeira Park, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre, 2018), 232 pages, $29.95. Anyone who watched the award-winning...
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Africa

Robben Island. April 28, 2008. One day after Freedom Day. It fell on a Sunday this year, giving South Africans the Monday off. Getting to the island is harder than usual with the crowds of families flocking to the popular historical spot. They are enjoying a sunny annual national holiday that marks the day...
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