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Ryan Grim, "We've Got People: From Jesse Jackso...
The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going?
46 min
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Ben Merriman, "Conservative Innovators: How Sta...
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...
21 min
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Chandra Russo, "Solidarity in Practice: Moral P...
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...
43 min
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Joseph C. Sternberg, "The Theft of a Decade: Ho...
Melennials have experienced much trauma in the last decade, especially as a result of the Great Recession of 2008.
62 min
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Clare Daniel, "Mediating Morality: The Politics...
"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...
59 min
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Daniel HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, "Producers...
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Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman, "#Ident...
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...
58 min
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Christopher Childers, "The Webster-Hayne Debate...
No, not the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Perhaps even more important than that Illinois contest of 1858 was the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830.
65 min
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Norman Eisen, "The Last Palace: Europe's Turbul...
Eisen describes the cycles of democracy that occurred as public support waxed and waned over the years...
35 min
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Christopher J. Galdieri, "Stranger in a Strange...
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...
47 min
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James Miller, "Can Democracy Work?: A Short His...
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...
41 min
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A. Harkins and M. McCarroll, "Appalachian Recko...
"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.
49 min
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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democr...
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...
32 min
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Gwendoline M. Alphonso, "Polarized Families, Po...
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...
24 min
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Matthew Green, "Legislative Hardball: The House...
Following the 2014 elections, a group of conservatives called the House Freedom Caucus regularly issued threats against its own party's leadership...
19 min
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Aram Gousouzian, "The Men and the Moment: The E...
The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt...
30 min
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Robin Truth Goodman, "The Bloomsbury Handbook o...
The Bloomsbury Handbook is is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...
55 min
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Peter Daou, "Digital Civil War: Confronting the...
Daou analyzes the daily political skirmishing that rages online, urges progressives to engage on the “digital battlefield.”
41 min
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Erin M. Kempker, "Big Sister: Feminism, Conserv...
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.
51 min
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Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: Th...
We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...
35 min
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Abraham A. Singer, "The Form of the Firm: A Nor...
Abraham Singer essentially marries together two disciplinary schools of thought and approaches to understand and consider the corporate firm...
43 min
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Andra Gillespie, "Race and the Obama Administra...
Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...
23 min
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Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making ...
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.
78 min
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Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rig...
Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...
21 min
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Laurence Cox, "Why Social Movements Matter: An ...
Cox highlights how social movements have shaped the world we live in and their importance for today’s social struggles...
33 min