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Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The ...
Cadava illuminates the history of the millions of Hispanic Republicans who, since the 1960s, have had a significant impact on national politics...
59 min
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Ayesha Siddiqi, "In the Wake of Disaster: Islam...
Siddiqi offers a forceful meditation on a number of key issues around the social contract, citizenship, and state provisions such as disaster relief and social protection...
52 min
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Steven J. L. Taylor, "Exiles, Entrepreneurs, an...
Taylor explores the second wave of African American exiles or repatriates to Ghana in post-1980s...
54 min
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E. Bruce Geelhoed, "Diplomacy Shot Down: The U-...
What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned?
51 min
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Laura A. Dean, "Diffusing Human Trafficking Pol...
Dean analyzes the development and effectiveness of anti-trafficking policies and institutions in Latvia, Russia, and Ukraine...
61 min
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Monika Gosin, "The Racial Politics of Division:...
Gosin reveals how differing notions of “worthy citizenship” encouraged interethnic conflict...
57 min
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George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
81 min
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Ken O. Opalo, "Legislative Development in Afric...
Opalo examines the development of African legislatures from their colonial origins through independence, autocracy and the transition to multi-party rule....
70 min
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Leticia Bode et al., "Words That Matter: How th...
How does social media impact presidential campaigns?
58 min
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Paul D’Anieri, "Ukraine and Russia: From Civili...
D'Anieri documents in a nuanced way the development of the current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine...
46 min
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Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence an...
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...
67 min
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J. Bernstein and C. B. K. Dominguez, "The Makin...
A politics-lovers guide to the 2020 presidential nomination process...
38 min
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Sherrow O. Pinder et al., "Black Political Thou...
"Black Political Thought" is nuanced and long-needed anthology interrogates the “never ending issue” of the unequal positioning of black Americans...
101 min
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Robert Nichols, "Theft Is Property!: Dispossess...
Nichols explores the idea of recursive dispossession, which Nichols explains as the situation where “new proprietary relations are generated but under structural conditions that demand their simultaneous negation.”
57 min
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Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global...
Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...
59 min
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Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown, "How We Vote:...
The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex...
33 min
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Shauna L. Shames et al., "Good Reason to Run: W...
This book provides a wealth of information and analysis of the reasons why women (and men) choose to run for public office and what that path looks like in terms of training, support, obstacles, and advantages...
53 min
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Jennifer Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History ...
Holland explores the development of the movement from the legalization of Roe v. Wade in 1973 to the present...
68 min
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Lauren Turek, "To Bring the Good News to All Na...
Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...
39 min
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Daniel Q. Gillion, "The Loud Minority: Why Prot...
Gillion analyses the connection between protests and the influence this public activism has on the voting electorate....
48 min
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Begüm Adalet, "Hotels and Highways: The Constru...
Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....
73 min
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Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Vot...
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?
46 min
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S. E. Schier and T. E. Eberly, "How Trump Happe...
How did Donald Trump’s leveraging of emotions get him to The White House?
37 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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Ilya Somin, "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migrati...
Somin defends the idea that foot voting is an essential element of political freedom and democratic governance...
61 min