Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...

"Citizenship" takes the reader through our own approaches to this concept and begins by highlighting how it is not always or often consistently applied and understood...

Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...

Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...

How have memes changed politics?

The authors argue that there are dimensions to the broadening of the US federal government into new areas of public life largely overlooked by previous scholars...

Our conversation examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, and is they relate to her her research on eugenics, white nationalists, the alt-right, and the alt-lite...

What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s?

Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight."

When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world...

Ghosh interrogates three arenas of debate over LGBT+ rights in the contemporary American landscape...

Sidorsky combines qualitative and quantitative research to examine appointed and elected state positions...

Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....

McCarty synthesizes what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of rising political conflicts in the United States...

Red State Revolt explains the emergence and development of the historic wave of teacher strikes in Arizona, West Virginia, and Oklahoma.

Borrowing from the language of the activists themselves, Janda dubs midwestern student protest to be “Prairie Power"...

They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...

The historian Nick Estes traces two centuries of Indigenous-led resistance and anti-colonial struggle...

In 1956 Albert Gore, Sr. received national attention as one of only three senators from the states of the former Confederacy who refused to sign the infamous “Southern Manifesto” opposing the racial integration of public spaces...

Rule-making may rarely make headlines, but the significance of this largely hidden process cannot be underestimated...

The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going?

Merriman's book new book explores what he calls uncooperative federalism. He finds a deliberate conservative strategy to use the courts and state executive power to resist federal influence in state affairs...