"A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Service ranked 11 strategies to spur the economy and create jobs. Cutting taxes for the rich was the worst ranked strategy." Read more →

A look at one of the activists featured in Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists. Read more →

Links to lots of good reading and listening around the web. Read more →

David Chura looks at our criminal justice system's attitude -- and our society's attitude -- towards prison rape, and prisoners in general. Read more →

Neil Miller discusses his new book about the 80-year reign of the Watch and Ward Society, Boston's moral crusaders. Read more →

Stephen Puleo will be at the Boston Public Library at 6pm tonight to discuss his book Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. If you can't make it, head over to the Boston.com Live Chat right now (it... Read more →

Charles Euchner discusses the recent revelation that an acclaimed photographer of the civil rights movement was an FBI informant. Read more →

Beacon Press publishes its first graphic book. Read more →

In White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, physician and moral philosopher Carl Elliott reveals the dangerous underbelly of the business of medicine. Read more →

New releases and recent media. Read more →

David Chura talks about his students and the challenges and rewards of teaching them. Read more →

While one man and his small group of followers talk about burning copies of Islam's holy book, America's secular and religious communities speak up in solidarity. Read more →

Courtney E. Martin explains why her generation is a lot more engaged than the media would have you think. Read more →

The author of Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin’ Mamas recalls his time working for a food co-op and the eggs they sold, with an interesting, salmonella-laden twist. Read more →

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship winner (2008), Builder Levy has photographed in New York City’s inner city communities where he was a New York City teacher of at-risk adolescents for 35 years; at civil rights and peace demonstrations in... Read more →