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Science
Social Sciences
1401
Michael A. Olivas, "Perchance to DREAM: A Legal...
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)....
60 min
1402
Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Tr...
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....
42 min
1403
Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How R...
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....
62 min
1404
Saqib Iqbal Qureshi, "The Broken Contract: Maki...
Can we make democracy work? Really work?
68 min
1405
Aya Gruber, "The Feminist War on Crime: The Une...
Gruber explains how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault...
63 min
1406
David A. Harris, "A City Divided: Race, Fear an...
How do we move police forces from a warrior culture to connecting better with communities they serve?
42 min
1407
Solomon Goldstein-Rose, "The 100% Solution: A P...
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....
60 min
1408
Amity Shlaes, "Great Society: A New History" (H...
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...
56 min
1409
Jan Doering, "Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and ...
In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...
50 min
1410
M. C. Stevenson et al. (eds.), "The Legacy of R...
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.
31 min
1411
Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: ...
Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...
60 min
1412
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, "Migrant Citizenship...
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...
53 min
1413
Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Design Justice: Communit...
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....
34 min
1414
Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductiv...
Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...
46 min
1415
John B. Holbein, "Making Young Voters: Converti...
In the United States, each election cycle reminds us that younger voters vote at much lower rates than their older counterparts...
44 min
1416
Sandra Postel, "Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle o...
To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....
47 min
1417
Mia Birdsong, "How We Show Up: Reclaiming Famil...
Birdsong returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity...
71 min
1418
Xueli Wang, "On My Own: The Challenge and Promi...
For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...
49 min
1419
Luke Messac, "No More to Spend: Neglect and the...
Messac challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi...
59 min
1420
Jeremy Gans, "The Ouija Board Jurors: Mystery, ...
At trial, some jurors turned to a Ouija board for guidance...
53 min
1421
Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...
67 min
1422
Philip M. Plotch, "Last Subway: The Long Wait f...
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...
39 min
1423
Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money...
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...
37 min
1424
Melissa K. Merry, "Warped Narratives: Distortio...
If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions?
58 min
1425
Peter J. Boettke, "Public Governance and the Cl...
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...
46 min