New Books in Public Policy
Episodes
Katie Batza, "AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
02 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Katie Batza on their recently published book, AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a ...
Radio ReOrient 14:5: Racial Justice, Human Rights and Surveillance, with Alba Kapoor, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Alba Kapoor. Kapoor is the racial justice lead at Amnesty International UK and pre...
Caroline Kuzemko, "Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate without It" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
By exploring the dynamic relationships between politics, policymaking, and policy over time, Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate wit...
Miranda Yaver, "Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Miranda Yaver’s new book, Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States (Cambridge UP, 2026), has lots of examp...
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Sims’ New Atlantis essay examines how emerging technologies are reshaping the structure and authority of the modern nation-state. He argue...
The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this sixth episode of Season 5, I interview Mr. Chris Griswold. An alum of Wheaton College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he was formerly a s...
The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’...
Thorsten Gromes, "Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases" (Springer, 2026)
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases (Springer, 2026) examines one of the most important questions in peace research: W...
Tim Cresswell, "The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movement The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility (U Minnesota Press, 2026)...
Amelia Frank-Vitale, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds" (U California Press, 2026)
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The consequences of U.S. border policies through the experiences of Honduran migrants. Hondurans have been at the heart of some of the most visible mi...
Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women (Duke UP, 2026) examines U.S. laws designed to rescue immigrant survi...
David Ost, "Red Pill Politics: Demystifying Today's Far Right" (New Press, 2026)
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies--and stokin...
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to ad...
Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Politics of Failed Policies (Oxford UP, 2025) examines how the interplay of politics and data affects when failed policies get recognized. It sh...
Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress—and what that reveals about American democracy. Congress, the central democratic i...
The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—a...
Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages (Cornell UP, 2022), Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh...
Sunmin Kim, "The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when theories of racial hierarchies interact with reality? How are they contested, refuted and changed in light of that encounter? What r...
The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A powerful blend of deeply human stories and rigorous research, The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health (Beacon ...
Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late" (Verso Books, 2025)
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, by the bestselling authors of Overshoot The world is crossing the 1...
Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Press, 2026)
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Like many of the world’s iconic coastal cities, Boston faces potentially severe impacts from climate change. Depending on global emissions, Boston c...
Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization Why have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between ...
Biko Koenig, "Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2024)
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement (Oxford UP, 2024) is a close-to-the-ground, ethnographic narrative o...
Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, 2026), philosopher Jacob Stegenga breaks with the most domina...
Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress—what does that reveal about American democracy? In Stuck: How Money, Media and Viole...
Amy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights (Legacy Lit, 2026) reporter Amy Littlefield investigates the sec...
Nicholas Beuret, "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" (Verso, 2025)
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The push for net zero has become a new arena for class conflict, where the powerful profit and the rest suffer. Existing policies won’t limit globa...
Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us take diapers for granted. Yet diaper insecurity is a common, often hidden consequence of poverty in the US, where nearly half of American f...
Lorraine Grimes, "Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the twentieth century, many women in Ireland and Britain endured shame and institutionalisation for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. ...
Josh Seim, "The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City" (U California Press, 2026)
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Despite claims that we live in a "post-welfare society," welfare offices remain vital not only for those who depend on them for benefits but also for ...
Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Each year, as many as 250 million Americans face civil legal problems like eviction, debt collection, and substandard housing. These problems are disp...
Joe Williams, "Inequality in the Digital Economy: The Case for a Universal Basic Income" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Joe Williams speaks with Andrew White about how the digital economy is reshaping inequality, work, and the social contract. Drawing o...
Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique" (U California Press, 2025)
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivered...
Erick Guerra, "Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction" (Island Press, 2025)
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting r...
David Obst, "Saving Ourselves from Big Car" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Streetwise: Saving Ourselves from Big Car (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025) exposes how “Big Car”―the complex of companies in the au...
Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their b...
Ron Hayduk, "Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States" (Routledge, 2026)
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States (Routledge, 2026) examines the causes, consequences, and politi...
Dafeng Xu, "Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy" (JHU Press, 2026)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. Spanning 30 city blocks and h...
Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (Cambridge, 2025), Ning Leng shows how Chinese officia...
Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually gro...
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flour...
Stephen Bezruchka, "Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How healthy you are is dependent on where you live. Americans suffer more cancers, heart disease, mental illness, and other chronic diseases than thos...
Tara Lohan, "Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life" (Island Press, 2025)
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025) is not Tara’s first book, she authored one at age eight. From their...
Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers" (Edward Elgar, 2025)
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when an academic supervisor and their former student get together to write and edit a book on researching our social world? In How to Co...
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
George Fisher, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, just released his new book Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial M...
Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by doc...
Matteo Gatti, "Corporate Power and the Politics of Change" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Corporate Power and the Politics of Change (Cambridge UP, 2025), Matteo Gatti examines how corporations have taken on roles traditionally reserve...
Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their b...
Democracy and Its Inter-Connections
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla joins us for a conversation on global democratic backsliding, the role of the international community, a...
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Parrino has been involved with the delivery of health care and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) since 1974. As the president of the Ameri...
A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An expansive policy blueprint for meaningfully expanding the middle class for the first time in a century The US middle class was a product of state a...
Zeke Hernandez, "The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States―and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict im...
Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education (Oxford UP, 2025), Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have crea...
Jamie Rowen, "Worthy of Justice: The Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts in Practice" (Stanford UP, 2025)
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives to traditional criminal procedures and punishments for...
Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Has American democracy outstripped its constitutional accommodations? Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long ...
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as ac...
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare...
Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or ...
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Jus...
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of...
Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking sp...
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, ha...
Nicholas L. Caverly, "Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nick Caverly talks about his new book, Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures (Stanford UP, 2025). For decades, Detro...
Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Faith in the American Dream—the idea that anyone who works hard can achieve success—has waned in the 21st century. Decreases in economic mobility,...
Trymaine Lee, "A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America" (St. Martins, 2025)
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her daddy why,...
Celina Su, "Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities" (Princeton UP, 2025)
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amid political repression and a deepening affordability crisis, Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities (Princeton U...
Peter Mancina, "On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State" (NYU Press, 2025)
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, local law enforcement agencies are legally and organizationally independent entities from federal law enforcement agencies like ...
Joseph L Graves, "Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why Black People Die Sooner is a powerful and rigorous examination of the ways racism shapes health and disease. Joseph L. Graves Jr. demonstrates th...
Mirya Holman, "The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy" (Temple UP, 2025)
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy (Temple UP, 2025) by Dr. Mirya Holman explicates the purpose, role, and ...
Peter Newell, "States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of the state in supporting transitions and deeper transformations towards a more sustainable world? Brought to you by the BISA...
Melissa Byrnes, "Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“A lot of things become possible when [the nation state] is not the only framework,” Melissa Byrnes reminds us in this deeply intimate local histo...
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The City and the Hospital (Chicago 2023) focuses on an urban paradox: American hospitals are imagined as sites of healing and care, and yet the peopl...
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a majo...
Thomas Princen, "Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future" (MIT Press, 2025)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michiga...
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Deborah...
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current political developments in the United States have only increased the...
Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when America loses its foreign-policy playbook? RBI acting director Eli Karetny talks with veteran diplomat and policy strategist Joel Ru...
Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change, scholars and practitioners who have worked together in various capacities acr...
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the convent...
Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is not commonly recognized is that the battles most pivotal in defining ou...
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University, about Democracy and Bullshit, with a special focus ...
Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, E...
Miranda S. Spivack, "Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back" (The New Press, 2025)
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to ...
David Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has long been an international outlier, with a powerful business class, a weak social state, and an exceptional gun culture. In Law...
Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and class remain the most reliable predictors of edu...
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rura...
Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Rehab: An American Scandal (Simon and Schuster, 2025), Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the...
Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and su...
David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Open Universe, 2025)
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Beito's new book brings to bear the latest historical scholarship to shed light on the life and achievements of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Profe...
Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth edition of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present, drawing on important feminist concep...
Muhammad H. Zaman, "Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable" (The New Press, 2025)
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable (The New Press, 2025), Professor Muhammad H. Zaman...
Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciti...
Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michael F. Maniates is a leading scholar in environmental politics and sustainability studies whose work has fundamentally reshaped how researcher...
Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else" (Columbia UP, 2025)
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For many years, Diane Ravitch was among the country’s leading conservative thinkers on education. The cure for what ailed the school system was clea...
Amy Shea, "Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Death is the great equalizer, but not all deaths are created equal. In recent years, there has been an increased interest and advocacy concerning end-...
Joanna Woronkowicz, "Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers" (Stanford UP, 2025)
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be an artist? In Artists At Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers (Stanford UP, 2025) Joanna Woronkowicz, the co-found...
Teresa M. Mares and Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, "Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain" (U California Press, 2025)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Food consumers are demanding a healthier and more sustainable food system. Yet labor is rarely part of the discussion. In Will Work for Food: Labor A...
Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, images of cartels, security agents donning face coverings, graphs depicting egregious murder rates, and military guards at US border crossings ...
José Marichal, "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract" (Policy Press, 2025)
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy? This incisive book Yo...
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could ne...