Ben Manski is a regular guest in WPR's "Week in Review"

A world of self-reliant cities is better not only for global ecosystems but also for the health of global democracy. Actively sharing great local business models provides a new tool for spreading democratic practice, not through threats or violence, but through opportunity and collaboration. Self-reliant communities, moreover, have very little rational reason to invade or coerce one another for oil, water or other resources.

Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary!

Conference at University of Minnesota on questions of neoliberalization and corporatization of higher education and the casualization of academic labor.

"If current trends continue, America could soon embark on an unprecedented social experiment by becoming the first advanced democracy to leave wide sectors of society and entire geographic regions without a fully functional, professional press."