Andrew Klein is a PhD student in history at UCLA. Previously, he worked as a journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area, covering local government and social movements for outlets such as The Nation, Jacobin, and KPFA’s Pacifica Evening News.
Andrew Klein
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Writing on Public Books
Make Allies, Break Empires
“Do you want to join the army, or do you want to go to jail?” This question—typically posed by a judge to a teenager charged with a petty crime—animated …
And Cuba Shall Lead Them
In an era when, history textbooks contend, the United States lurched to the right, Gus Newport presided over an unapologetically leftist government in the San Francisco Bay Area. If the region has a progressive reputation today, it is because people like Newport fought to make it so. As mayor of Berkeley from 1979 to 1986, […]
