The mainstreaming of Rand is, in large part, the work of one man (and his money).
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Humanitarian, award winning actress, and best-selling author Ashley Judd reflects on her faith and "true calling" -- social justice activism.
One man searches for balance between family and solitude, nature and technology.
In 1886, members of America's fledgling labor movement called a general strike for May 1 to demand an eight-hour work day.
Six books on the ongoing search for peace and justice in the Middle East and beyond.

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Women's ongoing search, in life and texts, for equality and empowerment.
Bio: Founded Empowering and Strengthing Ohio's People (ESOP) to stop predatory lending and home foreclosures. Website: www.esop-cleveland.org.
"A white man's country" became the multiracial, multicultural democracy we now inhabit.
Gareth Higgins reviews Batle: Los Angeles, Saving Private Ryan, and Chinatown.
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Bloomsbury Press.
Freedom Journeys: The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness across Millennia, by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow adn Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman. Jewish Lights Publishing.
Poets resist anti-immigration laws with defiance, beauty, and social media.
Latina/o Social Ethics: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Moral Thinking, by Miguel A. De La Torre.
THE EGYPTIAN revolution started on Facebook. True. The Iranians who took to the streets last year to try to overturn a fraudulent election used Twitter to coordinate their actions and to communicate with the outside world. Also true.
Filmaker David Barnhart helps disaster survivors tell their ongoing stories of healing and recovery.