Feminist writer and author, Meghan Daum, says instead of following the crowd we need to think for ourselves...

The gradual shift away from those habits of democracy is one of the things that paved the way for the Trumpocracy that David writes about in his book...

Woods and Hahner explore memes as a communication phenomenon with cultural effects with a specific focus on how memes circulated toward the end of the Trump campaign...

Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency...

Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...

Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...

Grossmann finds that, overall, the size of state governments was not reduced under conservative leadership...

"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...

What is democracy?

We know from this book that anger is animating politics, but the ways that anger is expressed and translated into political participation, varies greatly by race, gender, and age...

Westermeyer explores the once-powerful Tea Party Movement and the changing nature of political culture in the contemporary United States...

There is a growing mismatch between the culture of many campuses, and the challenges young people will face in their careers, politics and personal live...

Anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from vandalism through murder, are on the rise in Great Britain, and across Europe and North America...

What happens when a religion is demonized to such an extent that it is no longer deemed a religion – but an ideology?

There are a lot of calls these days to “revive civility” in politics...

Knott guides the reader through more than 200 years of presidents and the changes that these individuals have brought to the office itself...

Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, both the man and the myth, have had on US political discourse in the last decade....

A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?

Free market capitalism has failed women...

From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse...

American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....

When asked what democracy is, many of us instantly think of elections, and thus voting...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally.