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"Timed to coincide with the two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Richards’ seminal work posits that the ideals enumerated in our nation’s founding documents have never been and may never be fully realized." ow.ly/2ZNQ50Yittn via Booklist Publications

'The Problem With Plastic' is dire, but still holds hope A new book looks at the serious impacts to the environment and human health caused by our reliance on plastics since they were first manufactured less than a century ago.

LISTEN: The problem with plastic is grave but there's still cause for hope. Our president, Judith Enck spoke with @knkx.org environmental journalist, Bellamy Pailthorp about our new book.
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New book on trans athletes emphasizes human dignity

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Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports
Ellie Roscher and Dr. Anna Baeth

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

12 environmental & climate justice reads » Yale Climate Connections These books and reports span topics of migration, indigenous movements, African-American communities, and the Disability Rights movement.

Books to add to your shelf:

Talk with Judith Enck & WHYY’s Susan Phillips at Head House Books in Philly — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution Join Judith Enck. president of Beyond Plastics at Head House Books in Philadelphia on Friday, March 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM to learn more about the new book, “The Problem with Plastic”

Join Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics in conversation with Susan Phillips, WHYY senior climate, environment and energy reporter, to learn more about the new book, “The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late," on Friday, March 20.

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"Hattem debuts with a deeply reported look at the new patterns of migration resulting from climate change." - Read a review of Julian Hattem's SHELTER FROM THE STORM in Publishers Weekly ow.ly/B1Yr50Yiswk

Sun, 2/22/26 at 2:00 PM PT | Talk with Judith Enck & KNKX reporter, Bellamy Pailthorp at Townhall Seattle — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution Join Judith Enck. president of Beyond Plastics in conversation with KNKX’s environmental reporter, Bellamy Pailthorp at Townhall Seattle in Seattle, WA on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM to learn…

🚨EVENT SOON🚨 If you're in the Seattle area, join Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics, and Bellamy Pailthorp, environmental reporter, to learn more about our new book, “The Problem with Plastic” at Town Hall Seattle on Feb. 22 at 2:00PM.

NEW! Plastic is Poison | This Is Hell! Get more from This Is Hell! on Patreon

NEW FREE HELL!

@beyondplastics.bsky.social Judith Enck on, "The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late” (@thenewpress.bsky.social).

Also, Hangover Cure, Rotten History and your answerrs to the Quesrion from Hell!

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So grateful to English PEN for their support, and for everything they do to champion international literature 🙏

My translation of Rania Mamoun’s UNDER THE NEEM TREE is coming to you next year from @commapress.bsky.social in the UK & @thenewpress.bsky.social in the US!

Silicon Valley has a big Jeffrey Epstein problem … The reason Epstein didn’t raise any red flags with Musk, Hoffman, Thiel, Brin and others is because misogyny is integral to the history of computers and the Internet. @thenewpress.bsky.social

THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended THOMAS RICHARDS The New Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org li...

THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended by THOMAS RICHARDS via @thenewpress.bsky.social #Booksky
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King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South Book — Non-fiction. 2025. By Jeanne Theoharis. 400 pages. Illustrates how King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago — outside Dixie — was at the heart of his campaign for racial justic...

Learn about the NYC school boycott & more stories about the Civil Rights Movement in the North from @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social's new book via @thenewpress.bsky.social, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South" See ⬇️.
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Bezos in Paris! The extreme wealth and power of Silicon Valley leaders has flattened the usual tale of wealth-induced decadence. Bezos has gone from empire builder to fashionista in a single lifetime! Watch on IG www.instagram.com/reel/DUGVeVw...
Read in The Know-It-Alls @thenewpress.bsky.social

Trump’s Favorite Wedge Issue Has Finally Met Its Match Riley Gaines definitely doesn’t want you reading this.

Reviewed the new book Fair Game for @slate.com — it’s for if anyone you know *actually* has good-faith questions about trans athletes

The Martin Luther King Jr. We Don’t Know His work with gang members in Chicago shows how much he valued the part played by young people in the Black freedom struggle.

Probably my favorite part of researching KING OF THE NORTH was discovering all the work Dr. King did with gang members in Chicago--how much he saw their potential for leadership & how much they respected him (even if they didn't always agree). A King for our times: hammerandhope.org/article/mart...

Friends, please join me & the great @prisonculture.bsky.social for a discussion on Feb 3 at the 42nd street NYPL where we dismantle many of the myths about Dr. King's work--and dive deep into his work outside the South and his political partner Coretta Scott King. www.nypl.org/events/progr...

To Facemash or not to Facemash? Jurors in California social media addiction trial must be allowed to connect the dots. @thenewpress.bsky.social

The biggest tech story for 2026 doesn’t appear to be one: the proposed billionaires’ tax in California, which goes after wealth not income. If we are to dig out of the deep hole of inequality led by Big Tech, we need to support bold ideas like a wealth tax. @thenewpress.bsky.social @seiuca.org

We're all smiles 😊 “The Problem with Plastic” just made Independent Publishers Caucus' new weekly list of the top forty non-fiction bestsellers! 📕 🏅

Get your copy now at your local independent bookstore or online at @bookshop.org bit.ly/problemwithp...

Also a reminder on MLK’s birthday—with NYC nurses on strike—King called 1199, health &hospital workers, his “favorite” union and supported strikes in 1959 & 1962 on behalf of the lowest-paid Black and Puerto Rican women hospital workers bc their wages were so low “you couldn’t even call them wages.”

Dr King smiling crouches down to baby Bernice King in her stroller, while Coretta Scott looks on, also smiling

Today would be Dr King’s 97th birthday. A reminder; the holiday should be a day of direct action, not charity. Dr King called out the structures of inequality. When a white woman asked why Black people didn’t just clean up their own neighborhood, he made clear, ”That was the job of sanitation.”

YouTube video by Washington Monthly The perils of billionaire capture

Author @chuckcollinswrites.bsky.social on the perils of "billionaire capture" and his book, Burned by Billionaires, for @washingtonmonthly.com

Watch the full interview with Chuck here: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/07/c...

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How’d we get to Move Fast and Break America? From Big Tech treating people like machines and machines like people. #TheKnow-It-Alls @thenewpress.bsky.social

Billionaire backlash is coming They own too much. They control too much. They're also wrecking the planet.

Billionaire backlash is coming.

Watch an excerpt from my conversation with @chuckcollinswrites.bsky.social, author of "Burned by Billionaires" from @thenewpress.bsky.social, in this week's roundup @washingtonmonthly.com

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Another successful event on the books! No pun intended, of course. Thank you so much to @politicsprose.bsky.social and Vann R. Newkirk II of @theatlantic.com for helping us share our NEW BOOK “The Problem with Plastic.”

Get your copy today: www.beyondplastics.org/publications...

Image of the new paperback edition of The Know-It-Alls

Excited that my ahead-of-the-curve book about Silicon Valley is being issued as a paperback just in time for the techpocalypse! Thank you @thenewpress.bsky.social.

Should Billionaires Exist? Author Chuck Collins argues that billionaires are a uniquely destructive force to the economy, democracy, and the planet.

Yes, billionaires are in fact an even bigger problem than you think. They're wrecking the planet and driving up your bills.

Author @chuckcollinswrites.bsky.social makes the case against billionaires in this week's @washingtonmonthly.com podcast:

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Join @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social in DC tonight at 7 p.m. for a conversation with @jmhattem.bsky.social (SHELTER FROM THE STORM, @thenewpress.bsky.social). It's our Spotlight Event! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/mee... #booksky

It was such fun to be on @democracynow.org to talk about the myths of the Montgomery bus boycott & emphasize that the courage of Rosa Parks was her ability to take step after step without indication that any of them would matter. We have to stop looking for the 'right' action and just take action.