Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States...

Jobs are less secure today not because the market demanded it but because, starting as early as the 1950s, executives, consultants, and policy makers decided to make them that way...

A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?

Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..

Free market capitalism has failed women...

What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?

"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..

"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...

American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...

If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school..

Offner shows how strategies such as self-help housing, for-profit privatized state-functions, and austere social programs were well-trodded decades earlier in the mid-century “mixed economy"...

What are the true sources of inequality?

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...

What is the future of the museum?

Franks asks whether our country's faith and belief in the Constitution amounts to something like a cult,..

"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...

"The Obama Legacy" covers the domestic and foreign policy attempts, failures, and achievements...

Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...

How should we understand work?

Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...

Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?