Eleanor J. Bader

Paige Towers’s new book ‘What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption’ takes a searing look at international adoption.

Writer-activist-teacher Emmaia Gelman’s fascinating history of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a more than 100-year-old organization founded by German Jewish immigrants to the United States, situates the group squarely on the political Right.In The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, Gelman not only recounts the group’s 1913 creation as an effort to quash the progressive impulses of labor organizers from Eastern Europe, but she also zeroes in on the ADL’s promotion of a law-and-order agenda that motivated their efforts to undermine movements against racism and colonialism and spy on

A new history of the 113-year-old advocacy group highlights its lifelong history of Zionist antagonism toward the left.

Current social and emotional learning protocols fail to address systemic inequities, but integrating social justice principles benefits students and communities.

Online mental health companies are rolling out AI chatbots as therapists struggle with insurance industry changes.

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A small press offers writers support in telling stories of life during and after incarceration.

The Perfect Birth: Pushing Back Against a Broken Industry, by Avital Norman Nathman, with Deborah Wage, vigorously challenges the Heritage assessment and zeroes in on maternity care voids (sometimes called maternity care deserts) throughout the country.Nathman and Wage spoke to Ms. reporter Eleanor J. Bader shortly before the book’s release.

“I know it sounds corny,” writer Dave Zirin tells Religion Dispatches, “but part of Howard Zinn’s secret—the reason he saw hope as a discipline—was that he saw life as an adventure, with triumphs and tragedies, ups and downs. He valued the journey. He believed—and I wish people would tattoo this on their brains—that the way things currently are is not necessarily the way they’re going to be forever.”Zinn’s belief in the power of people to come together and organize to win economic, racial, and gender justice sustained him and led him to teach, write, and make what congress member and civil

The Delivery Protection Act would require corporations like Amazon to directly employ all the people who make online shopping deliveries possible.