Politics
How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and social order
An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attack
The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world
How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influence
From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpreted
An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriously
How race shapes expectations about whose losses matter
A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy
How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right
A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive—if we want it to
How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe
The largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social consequences
Why most Americans’ finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression—and the policy choices that made this possible
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craft
The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation
Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe’s crisis of democracy
A sweeping history of libertarian thought, from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quo
Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-being
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political system
How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrants—but also offer them hope for societal inclusion
Why debunked political rumors persist and how to combat them
The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violence
An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy—and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond Aron
How the drug war transformed American political culture
From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time
“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets
Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it
An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment
How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives—and our democracy
A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. Kennan
What an intensely divisive election means for American politics
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel
How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle
A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s bitterly divided politics
Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural life
An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics
How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t
Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution