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An independent publisher. Changing minds about justice since 1992. Follow us or email: [email protected]
New York City
Joined April 2009
Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityalec) says both Fox News and even more "liberal" outlets like The New York Times have disseminated stories that create the illusion of a crime wave, when, in fact, U.S. crime is at a 20-year low.
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Police-tracked crime, “contrary to what you have been told in the news every single day for the last several years, is actually down." https://t.co/v2xY1Mmzk0
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As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happen...
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"We're turning our ocean into a watery landfill." Former EPA official @enckj discusses her new book, "The Problem with Plastic."
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“Plastic really hit the market after World War II, but this massive increase is relatively recent, which says to me: we can solve the problem,” said @enckj, president of Beyond Plastics. “It's a new problem, and we know that there are alternatives.” Learn more about these
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In her new book “The Problem with Plastic,” a former EPA official looks at the costs of plastic overproduction and how we can move beyond it
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"The power of this novel revolves around its small yet larger-than-life moments." - @KirkusReviews 🌟 on @amabanckou's novel DEALING WITH THE DEAD https://t.co/91Gx3eRWct
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Our new book, "The Problem with Plastic" is out today from @thenewpress ! Learn more and get your copy at: https://t.co/NzFDLjXPB5 With @enckj @AdamLMahoney @evefox @MelissaValliant @JennyGitlitz
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"Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your climate impact. But recycling plastic will not address the plastic pollution crisis—and it is time we stop pretending as such," writes @enckj
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"Recycling doesn’t sustainably prevent plastic waste from ending up in the environment," argues Judith Enck.
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We were excited to share our NEW BOOK, “The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late” with Liz Kruger, NY State Senator. Senator Kruger is an environmental leader who supports the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act that
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You guys know by now that mean is the point. Check out the story of Sim Butler, who let Alabama to better protect his family. https://t.co/ZfoauexVRT
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“The weight of living in Alabama, of living in fight or flight every day, was something I didn’t realize I was carrying until I got out of there."
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Tonight online at 6:30 EST! Tune in!
Next Thurs, 11/6 | 6:30 PM | Online: Dr. Brian Jones, Jesse Hagopian, Barry M. Goldenberg & Crystal R. Sanders will discuss teaching and documenting Black history. Participating teachers are eligible to earn 1.5 CTLE credits. #SchomburgCenter #Schomburg100
https://t.co/DSTAOiNcxE
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"Butler debuts with a poignant memoir of raising his transgender daughter in the rural South." - Read a review of newly published AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in @PublishersWkly
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ICYMI: My book "Free Puerto Rico: The case for Independence" will be published by @thenewpress! I hope it will be a valuable contribution to the movement for Puerto Rico's liberation from 127 years—and counting—of U.S. colonial rule. Look for it in 2027. (Books take a while!)
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We wrote a BOOK! 📘 “The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late” is due out from @thenewpress on Dec. 2 🗓️ Pre-order your copy right now: https://t.co/7vkY3Gpbc5
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TUESDAY live at https://t.co/SM6dzmz5T8:
@stewarthome1 on "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness" (@PlutoPress) WEDNESDAY: Philip Kadish, on, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (@thenewpress)
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Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.
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"A journey back from the dead is illuminated by thrilling, one-of-a-kind encounters." - Read a starred review 🌟 of DEALING WITH THE DEAD by @amabanckou in @KirkusReviews
https://t.co/tECNzobxMv
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Dave Kamper, author of WHO'S GOT THE POWER: A Resurgence of American Unions, discussing his work with Ashley Bishop for @BowedPress. Kamper inspires us to feel hopeful about the future of unions, the power of solidarity, and what we can accomplish when we take action together.
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"A moving glimpse of the struggle for trans kids’ rights." - Read a review of the forthcoming AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in this week's @PublishersWkly
https://t.co/hcndnwn7RN
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Great clip of @JeanneTheoharis discussing the research and thesis of her new work, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside of the South" Available here: https://t.co/upAukGXyd7
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In a new #PENTen interview, @amabanckou, acclaimed poet, novelist, and UCLA professor, discusses the dangers of writing, the use of language in crafting meaning, and his newest book, Dealing with the Dead (@thenewpress, 2025). See the full interview here:
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In this PEN Ten interview, Alain Mabanckou discusses the power of literature in a time when government corruption is a dangerous reality.
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DEALING WITH THE DEAD "combines magical realism, horror, and literary fiction." Read a review of @amabanckou's new novel in @LibraryJournal
https://t.co/anIKnchtUo
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