“No more talented or colorful figure ever played the game of baseball than Satchel Paige” —-from The Pitcher and the Dictator I am a longtime admirer of Satchel Paige. After learning of his exploits from baseball books I connected with
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Well before the Trump era, U.S. presidents were failing to address urban problems or making them worse. Governors, members of Congress, and state legislators didn’t perform much better. So the difficult job of fighting poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation shifted
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University of Santa Cruz Professor William Domhoff released a book in 1967 that forever changed how scholars looked at power in the United States. Ambitiously titled Who Rules America?, Domhoff’s book arrived like a sociological earthquake shaking the foundations of
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Who was a real living person? a) Paul Bunyan b) Johnny Appleseed c) John Henry The answer is b, Johnny Appleseed. This great American hero is now the subject of a new graphic novel, Johnny Appleseed. Written by Paul Buhle,
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Housing politics in urban America have taken a surprising turn. On the one hand, we have YIMBY leader Sonja Trauss winning national acclaim in Politico magazine this week for promoting “a new solution for rents that are too damn high.”
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As I was reading chapter one of Benjamin Lisle’s Modern Coliseum: Stadiums and American Culture, I did something I have not done before: I sent an email to the author thanking him for writing this book. I did so because
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The past two decades have seen an upsurge in immigrants living in cities and the revival of formerly distressed urban neighborhoods. Thanks to a new book edited by Domenic Vitiello and Thomas Sugrue, Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United
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One million five hundred thousand men and women are currently on active duty in the U.S. military. Another eight hundred and twenty thousand serve in our reserve forces. And there are twenty two million veterans. We make a big show
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