Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Politicians love to woo entertainment corporations to their states and cities through subsidies and tax cities. But...

Peck traces the history of Fox's counter-elite brand from Murdoch to O’Reilly to Hannity...

The 1996 repeal of Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- the New Deal-era relief program for poor women with children -- was a seminal moment in the modern history of the US welfare state...

The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...

Sargent, a writer and columnist at The Washington Post, takes seriously this broad question about democratic health...

The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...

In this book, Dr. Vivian asks readers to reconsider our almost sacred regard for the act of witnessing in public culture,,,

Boryczka explores the fraught position that women find themselves in as citizens of the United States...

With at least one new billionaire in the 2020 presidential race, the politics of the one percent are with us again...

In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of  three inter-locking interest groups...

Ward tracks the political origins of the southern moderate outsider and the northern liberal insider, and paints two complex and nuanced portraits...

Leigh Goodmark asks us to evaluate the effects of criminalizing domestic violence...

There’s lot of talk these days, at least in some circles on the left, of a Universal Basic Income...

Jackson argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual hardening of U.S. policy towards North Korea...

How did a Wall Street executive and “foreclosure king” like Steve Mnuchin become the Treasury Secretary for a populist like Donald Trump?

Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new?  Think again...

Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized...

Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...

Traditionally Al Smith’s 1928 presidential campaign is remembered mainly for being the first time a Catholic was nominated as the candidate for a major political party....

How is it that “liberalism” is a word so ubiquitous and yet we can hardly seem to agree on its meaning?

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the great animating foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century...

In their words, they claim that capitalism is based on a false logic in which all facts and ideas are reduced to a consideration of their ‘feasibility’ within the capitalist system...

To wrap up the year and look ahead to 2019, we talked about the books we loved...