In her new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Metropolitan/Holt, October 2009), Barbara Ehrenreich traces the origins of contemporary optimism from nineteenth-century healers to twentieth-century pushers of consumerism. She explores how that culture of
Television broadcasters in the Aloha State have been quietly embarking on an underhanded media merger for more than a year. In August, the CBS, NBC and MyNetwork affiliates in Honolulu announced that they were folding into one of the "largest
BOSTON--After hearing Ralph Nader discuss his new book, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, at an event here Friday night, a man expressed the concern many Nader supporters felt upon reading the book's title. Only the rich? A book about
Mario Savio's place in American history is defined by the climax of the speech he gave as a 21-year-old student in December 1964, on the steps of the University of California administration building, at a key moment in the Berkeley
Record numbers of childminders are being forced out of business just 12 months after the introduction of Labour's compulsory "nappy curriculum" figures suggest.