Parents, teachers, feminists, conservatives, lawyers, the concerned citizen – pornography raises everyone's hackles...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Dr. Joseph Jarvis not only digs into how we got here and who is to blame, but he also lays out a solution for fixing the American healthcare system...

Politicians love to woo entertainment corporations to their states and cities through subsidies and tax cities. But...

If you are reading this, you have probably run into the "Chicago" model at some point or another,..

Van Noy decided not to follow the well-trodden path of trying to prove climate change science, nor did he bark about an irreversible tipping point. Instead, he provides us with a much-needed focus on communities...

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...

What are the characteristics of the 21st Century arts leader?

In this book, Janis Powers offers a health care solution that is truly based on the American dream...

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

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

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...