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Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rig...
Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...
21 min
1427
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
1428
Sarah Reckhow, "Outside Money in School Board E...
Who funds local school board elections?
24 min
1429
Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr., "Reading Politics with ...
Schmidt puts himself and the reader into conversation with Machiavelli, exploring Machiavelli’s thinking and how Machiavelli explains his theories...
42 min
1430
Candis Watts Smith, "Black Politics in Transiti...
Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...
20 min
1431
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Pat Garofalo, "The Billionaire Boondoggle: How ...
Politicians love to woo entertainment corporations to their states and cities through subsidies and tax cities. But...
29 min
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Reece Peck, "Fox Populism: Branding Conservatis...
Peck traces the history of Fox's counter-elite brand from Murdoch to O’Reilly to Hannity...
21 min
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Darren Barany, "The New Welfare Consensus: Ideo...
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...
33 min
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Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices ...
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...
49 min
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Greg Sargent, "An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our ...
Sargent, a writer and columnist at The Washington Post, takes seriously this broad question about democratic health...
30 min
1437
Matthew Bowman, "Christian: The Politics of a W...
The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...
58 min
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Bradford Vivian, "Commonplace Witnessing: Rheto...
In this book, Dr. Vivian asks readers to reconsider our almost sacred regard for the act of witnessing in public culture,,,
58 min
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Jocelyn M. Boryczka, "Suspect Citizens: Women, ...
Boryczka explores the fraught position that women find themselves in as citizens of the United States...
48 min
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B. I. Page, J. Seawright, and M. J. Lacombe, "B...
With at least one new billionaire in the 2020 presidential race, the politics of the one percent are with us again...
23 min
1441
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, "State Capture: How...
In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of three inter-locking interest groups...
21 min
1442
Jon Ward, "Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter an...
Ward tracks the political origins of the southern moderate outsider and the northern liberal insider, and paints two complex and nuanced portraits...
50 min
1443
Leigh Goodmark, "Decriminalizing Domestic Viole...
Leigh Goodmark asks us to evaluate the effects of criminalizing domestic violence...
26 min
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Steven Attewell, "People Must Live by Work: Dir...
There’s lot of talk these days, at least in some circles on the left, of a Universal Basic Income...
46 min
1445
Van Jackson, "On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The...
Jackson argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual hardening of U.S. policy towards North Korea...
52 min
1446
David Dayen, "Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story"...
How did a Wall Street executive and “foreclosure king” like Steve Mnuchin become the Treasury Secretary for a populist like Donald Trump?
35 min
1447
Kathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailout...
Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new? Think again...
53 min
1448
Judith Eve Lipton and David P. Barash, "Strengt...
Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized...
60 min
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Robin Marie Averbeck, "Liberalism is not Enough...
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...
55 min
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Robert Chiles, "The Revolution of ’28: Al Smith...
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....
55 min