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Like Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’ Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage - an intimate portrait of an invisible man. Mohammed Ashraf studied biology in college, and after college he learned how to repair television sets, cut suit lengths, and slice chicken. He has lived in Mumbai, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Surat, and Patna, but this evening he is stoned on a street in Sadar Bazaar, in North Delhi. The morning shall bring hangovers, whiskey breakfasts, and possibly answers to the lingering questions that haunt Ashraf.

In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating...

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The...

The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the 15th century. Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors?

For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the Green Revolution succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every yearmost of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.

Riding the rails, Ted Conover tasted the life of a tramp with companions like Pistol Pete, BB, and Sheba Sheila Sheils. From them he learned survival skills - how to "read" a freight train, scavenge for food and clothing, avoid the railroad "bulls." He was initiated into the customs of their unique, shadowy society - men and women bound together by a mutual bond of failure, camaraderie, and distrust.

Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. Unlike his previous books, however, Ordinary Resurrections is almost entirely narrative and takes us into the fascinating details of daily life as he has lived it with young children who befriended him over the course of several years. Like Amazing Grace, this book describes the children of New York's South Bronx, but it is a markedly different book in mood and vantage point.

WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT OF US? Is our faith just about going to church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most serious sins—or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it? Ten years ago, Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in a...

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries—the business of poverty. Broke, USA is a Fast Food Nation for the “poverty industry” that will also appeal to readers...

The children we meet through the deepening friendships that evolve between Janathan Kozol and their families defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented on TV and in newspapers. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with painful clarity about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. "It's not like being in a jail," says 15-year-old Isabel. "It's more like being hidden."

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely discussed.

Rischi di lockdown: Emergenza Covid: la norma c'è, i test rapidi no. Il pasticcio dei rientri dall'estero, di Alessandra Ziniti; "L'Italia sta peggiorando". Quasi mille i focolai ma l'indice Rt torna sotto 1, di Elena Dusi; Italia come a dicembre: "Agire o fra due mesi tornerà il lockdown", di Luca Fraioli; Un solo contagio in classe e sarà quarantena per tutti, di Michele Bocci; Impreparati a tutto, di Chiara Saraceno.

Ripartenze e proteste: Riapertura delle Regioni. No al passaporto sanitario, ma controlli più rigidi, di Giovanna Vitale; Conte e l'addio alla prudenza: "Il blocco non ha più senso", di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; "È il mio programma": Conte cerca uno scudo per non restare solo, di Claudio Tito; Santelli: "In Calabria l'unico rischio è ingrassare. Invito Bonaccini e Fontana a casa mia", di Giuseppe Smorto; Ripartenze e proteste per il caso Lombardia: "Sbagliato riaprire tutto", di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; Tamponi e test ai turisti. Nelle Regioni controlli fai da te, di Tommaso Ciriaco.

L'Italia, la rabbia e la ripartenza: Record di nuovi poveri e tanta rabbia nell'Italia che non riesce a ripartire, di Paolo Griseri, Caterina Pasolini, Mariella Tanzarella; Il ministro dell'Economia Gualtieri: "Capisco la rabbia, il decreto Rilancio aiuterà tutti", di Alberto D'Argenio; Alle radici della rabbi,a di Concita De Gregorio; Fase 2, Conte accelera: "Ora la semplificazione. E torneremo a correre", di Tommaso Ciriaco e Claudio Tito; Poveri, soli, arrabbiati: "Quattro mesi per salvare il paese dal baratro", di Paolo Griseri.

Ripartenza, rischi e paure: Paura di ripartire di Maria Novella De Luca; "Aiutavamo gli altri ma ora i poveri siamo diventati noi" di Massimo Calandri e Erica Manna; Il contagio della povertà di Chiara Saraceno; Milano, la città non si fida e i tram restano vuoti "Ancora troppi rischi" di Brunella Giovara; Mercato e caffè al bar. Ritorno a Codogno dove tutto cominciò di Carlo Annovazzi; Fuori c'è un mondo che non è cambiato. Io per ora non esco: ho paura di noi di Natalia Aspesi.

"Rep: Digest" ti offre ogni settima due appuntamenti con l'informazione di Repubblica. Due raccolte di articoli in formato audio che raccontano e analizzano i temi e le notizie della settimana. Storie e diari dalla quarantena: Lui e lei rimasti senza calcio. Il racconto di Stefano Benni di Stefano Benni; Racconto la storia e le fiabe italiane ai nipotini su Skype di Paolo Rumiz; Ripenso al Papa che mi disse: "Riposeremo dopo" di Paolo Rumiz; Il pianeta si salva con parole nuove di Michele Neri.

A holiday classic by Charles Dickens. Originally published in 1843, Dickens worried about the disparity between the wealthy and the impoverished, and it was his attempt to bring this disparity into the light of day, to appeal to the die-hard capitalists to take care of the downtrodden masses. Since this inequity continues, this story is still popular, and will probably continue to be so for the foreseeable future.

In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the very fabric of her city and all of urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, she gives voices to these young people - victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction. She also doesn’t ignore the threat they pose to themselves and to others as a dangerous dark side emerges. With alarming urgency, she asks what can be done to save the next generation of America’s vagabond youth.

Nearly 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line - about $26,200 for a family of four. Low-income families and individuals are everywhere, from cities to rural communities. While poverty is commonly seen as a personal failure, or a deficiency of character or knowledge, it's actually the result of bad policy. Public policy has purposefully erected barriers that deny access to basic needs, creating a society where people can easily become trapped - not because we lack the resources to lift them out, but because we are actively choosing not to.

A vivid and enlightening oral history of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of reentering mainstream society. Dark Days, Bright Nights is the follow-up to the best-selling Beneath the Neon and shares the harrowing stories of Sin City's most marginalized people, from bottoming out in homelessness to mending relationships with family and adjusting to jobs, housing, and sobriety.