The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things...

In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of  three inter-locking interest groups...

This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...

The so-called Urban Crisis of the 1970s continues to loom large in narratives of US urban politics and history...

The alleged link between vaccines and autism has long been disproven, but it is still a belief held onto by the anti-vaccine movement...

In Success and Failure, Reiche provides a playbook for National Committees that want to win more medals...

Leigh Goodmark asks us to evaluate the effects of criminalizing domestic violence...

There’s lot of talk these days, at least in some circles on the left, of a Universal Basic Income...

The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logical progression of governmental policy over a period of generations...

Dr. Hirota’s book focuses on state legislation policies of immigration control in New York and Massachusetts...

The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years....

If you are looking for something accessible that covers also the most contemporary topics (inequality, climate change, migration, sustainability, austerity, financial crisis…), go and buy it.

Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.

Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico...

Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new?  Think again...

Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized...

In Administrative Burden, Herd and Moynihan show that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with government are not accidental, but the result of deliberate policy choices...

Documenting Aftermath is a very timely book, for as global warming promises more frequent catastrophes, large-scale social media and government information systems increasingly dictate how information moves...

Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War...

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....

To wrap up the year and look ahead to 2019, we talked about the books we loved...

One of the themes of the era of Donald Trump is whiteness and white identity...

One-off” protests don’t change the world; sustained direct action campaigns do...

When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined...

What is learning? There is a robust body of literature that seeks to tell us what the most effective classroom techniques and strategies are, but Joshua Eyler goes further...