Travis Lupick’s "Light Up the Night" takes a compassionate look at the US’s drug overdose crisis and those working to address it. Two visionary reformers who themselves wrestled with drug addiction, Louise and Jess, are at the center... Read More

"How Reasonable Americans Could Support Trump" is a good starting point for anyone who wishes to have honest conversations with acquaintances across the political aisle. Brian Rees’s perspective-driven political science book "How... Read More

"Government 2.0" is a political science manifesto about how America’s government can best serve its citizens. Joseph Albert Gorski’s "Government 2.0" is a personal statement about what’s wrong with the US’s government; it... Read More

In 1971, the ratification of the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. Jennifer Frost’s thorough, valuable "Let Us Vote!" celebrates the amendment’s semicentennial by chronicling the long struggle to pass... Read More

In his latest political science book, Tariq Ali explains and condemns foreign interference in the Middle East, from the Russian occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, to its American occupation, which began in 2001. Ali reveals that... Read More

The origins of the conspiracy theories that permeate modern American politics are revealed in Edward H. Miller’s biography of Robert Welch, "A Conspiratorial Life". Born into a family of North Carolina farmers who fought in the... Read More

While false claims of voter fraud have become common in recent years, the 2018 congressional midterm for North Carolina’s Ninth District featured the rare case of actual fraud, with illegal ballots from rural Bladen County causing the... Read More

For the four years of its existence and in the months following it, Donald Trump’s presidential administration provided myriad examples of breaking American law and general norms of government. As Allan Lichtman demonstrates in his... Read More