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Radical centrism

Think tanks and mass media

Marina Silva speaking in 2010

EDIT: Adding Bari Weiss, with internal citations & references. [new para., second to last in this section]"

Bari Weiss, co-founder of The Free Press, has described herself as a "radical centrist". In 2025 she was named editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Bari Weiss

Political views

Noel Pearson in 2010

Aart Jan de Geus in 2022

Attach to the second sentence:

EDIT: Adding "radical centrist" characterization from recent NYT & NPR articles.

, and articles from The New York Times and NPR in 2025 say she has also described herself as a radical centrist.

External links

Nikol Pashinyan in 2025

EDIT: Adding the Encyclopedia Britannica's GPUSA entry, exactly as WP's Democratic Party (US) and Republican Party (US) articles have their Britannica entries in their External links sections.

• Green Party of the United States at the Encyclopedia Britannica

Green Party of the United States

EDIT: Initiating a "Further reading" section consisting of publications that present a variety of views on the GPUSA. For more, see this article's "Talk" page under "The Further Reading Section".

Further reading

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  Nikol Pashinyan of Albania, 2025
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  Matti Vanhanen of Finland, 2022
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  Gareth Morgan of New Zealand, 2012
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  Marina Silva of Brazil, 2014
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  Pierre Trudeau of Canada, 1975

• Capra, Fritjof and Spretnak, Charlene (1984). Green Politics: The Global Promise. New York: E. P. Dutton, distributed by Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-525-24231-4. Chapter Nine, "The Green Alternative – It Can Happen Here", examined the prospects for a Green party or movement in the U.S. (which co-author Spretnak then helped organize).
• Coleman, Daniel A. (1994). Ecopolitics: Building a Green Society. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, distributed by Chicago Distribution Center. ISBN 978-0-8135-2055-1. By a co-author of the first Green platform. Chapter 10, "From Participation to Power", provides a first-hand and sometimes cautionary look at the U.S. Green movement.
• Gaard, Greta (1998). Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, distributed by Chicago Distribution Center. ISBN 978-1-56639-569-4. Scholarly survey of the U.S. Greens' first 15 years, from an explicitly social justice and ecofeminist perspective.
• Green, Donald J. (2010). Third-Party Matters: Politics, Presidents, and Third Parties in American History. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger / ABC-CLIO, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1440836398. By a lecturer in American political history. Chapter Six, "Ralph Nader and the Green Party", argues that Nader's 2000 campaign was one of the most consequential third-party efforts in U.S. history.
• Hawkins, Howie, ed. (2006). Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate. Chicago: Haymarket Books, distributed by Consortium Books. ISBN 978-1931859301. Twenty-four Green activists and "allies" including David Cobb, Matt Gonzalez, and Norman Solomon discuss how Greens can disrupt the two-party domination of U.S. politics.
• Mayer, Margit, and Ely, John, eds. (1998). The German Greens: Paradox Between Movement and Party. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, distributed by Chicago Distribution Center. ISBN 978-1566395168. Co-editor Ely is a social and political commentator. His Chapter 10, "Green Politics in Europe and the United States", includes a section on the U.S. Greens from a Euro-left perspective.
• Nader, Ralph (2002). Crashing the Party: Taking On the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender. New York: St. Martin's Press, distributed by Macmillan Distribution. ISBN 978-0312284336. Detailed description and analysis of the author's 2000 Green Party Presidential campaign.
• Rensenbrink, John (1999). Against All Odds: The Green Transformation of American Politics. Raymond, ME: Leopold Press, now permanently closed, no distributor. ISBN 978-0966062915. Parts III and IV discuss the Green movement and Green Party, respectively.
• Satin, Mark (2023). Up From Socialism: My 60-Year Search for a Healing New Radical Politics. New York: Bombardier Books, distributed by Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-63758-663-1. Chapter Eight, "Co-founding the U.S. Green Party Movement", is a first-hand and often critical account of the formative years of the U.S. Greens, from an explicitly radical centrist perspective.
• Sifry, Micah L. (2002). Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America. New York: Routledge, distributed by Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-93142-7. By a former assistant editor at The Nation. Section III, "Organizing the Left", includes researched, sympathetic material on the early U.S. Greens.
• Tokar, Brian (1994). The Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, distributed by Ingram Publisher Services. By a founder of the Left Greens. Introduces the U.S. Greens and discusses their choices and prospects.
• Whaley, Rick (2007). How Green Is the Green Party?: Stories from the Margins. Ossipee, NH: Beech River Books, distributed by Ingram Content Group. ISBN 978-0-9776514-9-8. By a founder of the Wisconsin Greens. Critical look at the U.S. Greens from an explicitly decentralist and bioregionalist perspective.
• Frank Zelko and Carolin Brinkmann, eds. (2006). Green Parties: Reflections on the First Three Decades. Washington, DC: Heinrich Böll Foundation North America, distributed by University of Chicago Press via its Chicago Distribution Center. Large booklet, no ISBN. Symposium papers by global Greens including U.S. Green activists John Rensenbrink, Lorna Salzman, Steven J. Schmidt, Charlene Spretnak, and Brian Tokar.

The “Further reading” section

For the GPUSA Talk Page:

EDIT: Introducing the "Further reading" section.

EDIT: Introducing the "Further reading" section.

The "Further reading" section

Andrés Velasco speaking at a rally in 2009

I have just initiated a "Further reading" section for this article. Wikipedia's U.S. Democratic and Republican Party articles have extensive "Further reading" sections, so I thought it was high time for the U.S. Green Party article to have one! More importantly, there is a wide range of books and chapters of books about the U.S. Greens that are not cited in this article and that students, scholars, activists, and other users of Wikipedia should know about.

So here's how I proceeded:

1. I paid close attention to Wikipedia's guidelines for Further reading sections as set forth in MOS:FURTHER.

2. I have focused on texts ABOUT the U.S. Green organization from its inception in 1984 to now. Many books have been ideologically helpful TO Greens in their work (e.g., by Grace Lee Boggs and Starhawk), but they are not included here as the focus of this article is on the organization itself.

3. No one could possibly agree with all of the observations in all of these books! Pursuant to Wikipedia's guidelines about neutral point of view (see WP:NOV), I have included texts reflecting a very wide range of political and personal perspectives.

4. There is no truly conservative text here, but that is only because I have never come upon a book or book chapter about the U.S. Greens by a conservative.

Ahn Cheol-soo speaking in 2010

5. Wikipedia strongly discourages inclusion of self-published texts, see WP:RSSELF, so there are none here.

6. The MOS:FURTHER guideline says that Further reading texts should follow the same citation style as in the rest of the article. Because only one book is cited in the article – Murray Bookchin's Social Ecology and Communalism – the entries in "Further redoing" follow the Bookchin format: Last name, first name, date of publication, title, place of publication, publisher.

7. Wikipedia wants ISBN numbers on books (see WP:CITE, first paragraph), so I have given them too.

8. Because some publishers in the Further reading section are relatively small, I have identified all publishers' distributors. (Will be helpful to co-ops, schools, and study groups.)

9. The MOS:FURTHER guideline permits brief and (of course) neutral annotations, so I have added some.

10. When authors HAVE bios on Wikipedia, I have simply added internal links to their names. When authors do NOT have bios on WP, I have added a pertinent fact about them.

11. While I have limited my selections to books and portions of books, plus one large booklet, WP nowhere says that significant articles cannot be listed in a Further reading section. MOS:FURTHER speaks simply of "publications".

12, EXTRA IMPORTANT. The MOS:FURTHER guideline says that Further reading texts should not duplicate texts in the "References" section, UNLESS the References section is too long to serve as a general reading list. With over 120 References in this article already, I think it is safe to say that texts in the Further reading section CAN be cited as References without having to eliminate them from the Further reading section.

I am old & ill, and cannot do any more on the GPUSA article than what I've put up today. I hope that, over time, others will not only add to the Future reading list, but will use these sources to flesh out this very important article. – Babel41 (talk) 03:22, 15 September 2025 (UTC)