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October 23, 2015

Review: Detroit Was a Golden City Once – and It Can Be Again

October 23, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: Detroit Was a Golden City Once – and It Can Be Again

By Lavea Brachman

The seeds of renewal must be egalitarian

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October 23, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Cities, Non-Fiction, History
October 15, 2015

Review: Why Can't Something Be Done About Our Broken Home Mortgage System?

October 15, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: Why Can't Something Be Done About Our Broken Home Mortgage System?

Government intervention in the mortgage market likely won't end any time soon

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October 15, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Economics, Non-Fiction, Jim Kaplan, Banking
October 07, 2015

Review: How Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker Flunked School Reform

October 07, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: How Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker Flunked School Reform

By James Swearingen

The Prize is . .  a story of good intentions gone awry.

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October 07, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Education, Non-Fiction, Cities, Poverty, Politics, James Swearingen
September 30, 2015

Review: The Amazing Adventures of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor

September 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: The Amazing Adventures of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor

By Eileen Hershenov

How a Supreme Court Odd Couple Fought for Women's Equality

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September 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ 2 Comments
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Law, Supreme Court, Women, Biography, Non-Fiction, Eileen Hershenov
September 26, 2015

Review: A Cuban-American Novel on the Pain of Living in Two Worlds

September 26, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: A Cuban-American Novel on the Pain of Living in Two Worlds

By Madeleine Blais

This lively, sharply observed, and often humorous story shows what it is like to suffer from "bilocation"

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September 26, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
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Fiction, Cuba, Novel, Madeleine Blais
September 09, 2015

REVIEW — Getting Close to a Killer

September 09, 2015/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW — Getting Close to a Killer

By Shawn Francis Peters

Much of The Man in the Monster is devoted to determining how an apparently mild-mannered person could morph into a serial killer

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September 09, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Shawn Francis Peters, Crime, Non-Fiction
September 02, 2015

REVIEW — A Family That Resisted the Nazis…and Paid For It

September 02, 2015/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW — A Family That Resisted the Nazis…and Paid For It

by Amy E. Schwartz

Darkness lurking around the edges of heroism is the underlying and faintly troubling theme

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September 02, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Amy Schwartz, History, Holocaust, France, World War II
August 30, 2015

REVIEW – Abortion Without Apology

August 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW – Abortion Without Apology

By Dorothy Samuels

Abortion rights are in trouble in part because the pro-choice community fell down on the job

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August 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Dorothy Samuels, Abortion, Law, Politics
August 17, 2015

REVIEW — The Tragedy of American Voting Rights

August 17, 2015/ Jen Deaderick
REVIEW — The Tragedy of American Voting Rights

by Adam Cohen

Viewed in its totality, the voting rights story is not one of triumph, but of tragedy. 

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