Russo explores how solidarity activists contest the practices of the US security state both within its borders and abroad. Russo follows three social movement organizations...

Melennials have experienced much trauma in the last decade, especially as a result of the Great Recession of 2008.

"Mediating Morality" is a contemporary exploration of the construction of teen pregnancy in legal events, activism, media campaigns, television, film, and across many domains of popular-political culture since the dismantling of the welfare state, which Daniel definitively places in the year 1996...

De Kosnik and Feldman bring together a broad array of chapters that dive into multiple perspectives on social media engagement, especially around hashtag activism and the ways that individuals think about and interact with others via Twitter in regard to social movements and political involvement...

Eisen describes the cycles of democracy that occurred as public support waxed and waned over the years...

No, not the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Perhaps even more important than that Illinois contest of 1858 was the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830.

While the thrust of Stranger in a Strange State is on this topic of carpetbagging, our understanding of carpetbagging also brings forward considerations of representation, since the critique of the carpetbagger tends to be a disconnection from the citizens to be represented, especially for those running for the United States Senate...

James Miller encapsulates 2500 years of democracy history into about 250 pages — making the case that “people power” will always need to be at the heart of any successful democracy...

"Appalachian Reckoning" is a retort, at turn rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow J.D. Vance’s "Hillbilly Elegy" has cast over the region and its imagining.

Alphonso demonstrates how regional ideas about family in the 20th century shaped, not only Republican and Democratic policy and ideological positions concerning race and gender, but also their ideals concerning the economy and the state...

As How Democracies Die illustrates, it’s much easier to succumb to the power of an autocratic leader than it is to stand up and protect the institutions that serve as the guardrails of democracy...

Following the 2014 elections, a group of conservatives called the House Freedom Caucus regularly issued threats against its own party's leadership...

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt...

The Bloomsbury Handbook is is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...

Daou analyzes the daily political skirmishing that rages online, urges progressives to engage on the “digital battlefield.”

The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.

We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...

Abraham Singer essentially marries together two disciplinary schools of thought and approaches to understand and consider the corporate firm...

Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...

As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.

Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...

Cox highlights how social movements have shaped the world we live in and their importance for today’s social struggles...

Who funds local school board elections?

Schmidt puts himself and the reader into conversation with Machiavelli, exploring Machiavelli’s thinking and how Machiavelli explains his theories...