“I teach only two things—suffering and the end of suffering,” said the Buddha. Through the Dharma—truth or path to truth—he explained that suffering originates in the clinging mind, and that suffering is released by an... Read More

On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children, one by one. The media seized on the horrific act, splashing pictures of the children across televisions and newsstands across the country. When it was revealed that Yates had been... Read More

"The Whites of Their Eyes" is a fascinating attempt to raise the level of US public policy debate. It is also a critique of the uses of history in politics and a brief, informative account of the ordinary people who lived at the time of... Read More

The United States has a higher rate of poverty than any other country except Mexico. So says the Luxembourg Income Study (a data bank and research institute), which sets the poverty line in twenty-one high-income nations at half of that... Read More

Drama is a glamorous profession that attracts and demands the gifted to work as actors, directors, or producers. However, drama can also be an educational tool with therapeutic value which can help students to overcome physical or... Read More

This first-ever anthology of nonfiction by midwestern humorist Homer Croy (1883–1965) leaves readers wondering how this engaging voice of American regional writing faded into the folds of history. Born and raised on a farm in... Read More

It is strange to place Nabile Farès’ "A Passenger from the West" under a genre heading. The work resists categorization. Is it nonfiction? Yes. The friendship between Farès and James Baldwin, which is a main subject of the book,... Read More

Since the Drug Enforcement Administration was founded in 1973, millions of Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses, contributing to the country’s bulging prisons. And, while the costs of the government’s war on marijuana... Read More