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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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....

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...

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...

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

One of the themes of the era of Donald Trump is whiteness and white identity...

One-off” protests don’t change the world; sustained direct action campaigns do...

Why has nationalism suddenly returned with a vengeance to the political front stage?

Harkening back to the tribunal on Vietnam once convened by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) emerged in 2003 from the global antiwar movement that had mobilized against the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq by a US-led coalition....

For all of the books written about Winston Churchill, much remains to be said about his extensive life and career...

Whether you love him or hate him, it is indisputable that few, if any, other 20th-century American presidents were as historically consequential as Woodrow Wilson...

McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...