Política social

In Drinking in America, best-selling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history....

As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too....

Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee yearns to return to his homeland of Yemen, now wracked by war, starvation and daily violence, to reconnect with his family....

Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the US, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future....

From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and leading gun violence prevention advocate comes the riveting memoir of a mother’s loss and call to action, as well as a faith-based exploration of how the nation’s gun laws put a deadly target on American lives....

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a political football for years now, but as its provisions start going into effect, there’s still precious little information available on how it will impact you....

America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them....

When tough-on-crime laws passed 30 years ago during an era of drug-fueled violence, they were supported across the political spectrum. The subsequent "war on drugs"....

America's Existential Crisis: Our Inherited Obligation to Native Nations is a historical journey and a road trip through "Indian country"....

People say that they trust scientists, yet evidence often takes a back seat to emotions. In fact, for issues that cause the loudest public furor...there is almost no debate in the scientific community. This audiobook examines the science behind today’s most contentious debates....

Government Ruins Nearly Everything helps you remember who's the boss and who's the public servant, and gives you tools to reclaim what was yours all along....

A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest to help make our society into the kind of "village" that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults....

An uplifting look at how organizers in the past have successfully leveraged crises into emancipatory politics, and a plea for continued progressive movement building in our tumultuous social climate....

What does it mean to be poor in the UK and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or "bad life decisions" rather than policy choices or economic inequality....

Former Speaker of the House and best-selling author Newt Gingrich issues a dire warning for America....

Joining forces with the former chair of the Royal Television Society's Diversity Committee Marcus Ryder, Sir Lenny Henry draws on decades of experience to reveal why recent efforts to diversify media have been thus far ineffective and why they are simply not enough....

On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court released two interlocked abortion decisions overturning the laws of all the individual states. Only one of the decisions, Roe v. Wade, tends to get much media attention....

Why is it so hard to talk about wokeness? According to Merriam-Webster, "woke" means "aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts ...

Drawing on solidarity between illicit drug users and people in pain, in a wise understanding of what humans need to be well, and in radical drug policies like legalization and safe supply, Carlyn Zwarenstein lays out a vision of a world where suffering is no longer lauded....

With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities....