"California Infrastructure Projects" is a diligent, in-depth manual for tapping into the billions of dollars that California spends each year on its highways, transit systems, and other projects for the public. Ernest C. Brown’s... Read More

The essays of Issac J. Bailey’s Why Didn’t We Riot? are incisive as they confront the realities of systemic racism in America and in the age of Donald Trump. Bailey begins his book by discussing blind spots—in particular, those of... Read More

Behind social and economic tumult lurks the threat of catastrophic climate change. Intellectual powerhouse Noam Chomsky and progressive economist Robert Pollin examine how we got here, and provide a detailed action plan for mobilizing... Read More

Teresa Fazio’s shocking memoir "Fidelis" recalls her deployment to Iraq and her stateside return. Fazio, a lieutenant in the US Marines, shares a vivid account of her deployment when she was a naïve twenty-three-year-old. Through her... Read More

Wales, though small, is a vanguard when it comes to integrating sustainable development via government policies and actions. The chief architect of its Well-Being of Future Generations Act, Jane Davidson, chronicles the law’s enactment... Read More

"The Opportunity Agenda" is a practical, persuasive blueprint for refocusing the Democratic Party to serve the concrete needs of the people. NYC real estate executive and social advocate Winston Fisher and former Kansas City mayor Sly... Read More

As a thought experiment, ask yourself how close the USA might be, exactly, to becoming another quasi-, tin-pot democracy led by an authoritarian figure, along the lines of Putin’s Russia and Erdogan’s Turkey? What types of damaging... Read More

Thorough research is apparent in Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman’s "The Religion Clauses", a deep monograph about the correctness of the separation of church and state. Both a history of the US Constitution and Supreme Court... Read More