Olivas provides a much needed legal and political history of the DREAM Act that spans over two decades from its introduction in Congress (2001) to the Trump Administration challenge of legality in the Supreme Court (2017)....

Buer explores the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs in one of the most impoverished regions in the US....

Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....

Gruber explains how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault...

Can we make democracy work? Really work?

How do we move police forces from a warrior culture to connecting better with communities they serve?

In this New Books Network interview, we speak about the political, industrial, and scientific changes that need to occur by 2050 to solve climate change, as well as the importance of focusing on real solutions rather than wallowing in fear....

Shlaes’ book is exquisitely well-timed. Now is the time to revisit the Great Society era and consider what worked and what ended up destroying poor neighborhoods and the lives of those in them...

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater.

In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...

Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...

Design justice demands a deep understanding of the community and its needs, engagement with community members, and a recognition of their expertise, along with reciprocation of value....

Martinez-Matsuda exams the Farm Security Administration’s Migratory Labor Camp Program, and its role in the daily lives of a diverse number of farmworker families...

Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...

In the United States, each election cycle reminds us that younger voters vote at much lower rates than their older counterparts...

To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....

Birdsong returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity...

For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...

Messac challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi...

At trial, some jurors turned to a Ouija board for guidance...

Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...

Plotch discusses the problems of uneven funding, high costs, and political machinations that hobble the subway system-- and how, on Second Avenue, they were finally overcome...

Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure economic philosophy has been gaining a growing following on the left...

If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions?

In our conversation we defined the disciplines of Public Choice and Public Administration and we named the key actors of a very long intellectual debate...