Government, Law and Public Policy

Recent movers and shakers in government, law and public policy.

Updated March 7, 2025
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Applebaum, Anne.
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign...
The originalism trap how extremists stole the constitution and how we the people can take it back
Dennie, Madiba K.
Ebook
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism--the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it "The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was...
The year of living constitutionally one man's humble quest to follow the Constitution's original meaning
Jacobs, A. J.
Ebook
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time- How should we interpret America's...
New cold wars China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West
Sanger, David E.
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The fast-paced inside story of America's plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
Glaude, Eddie S., Jr.
Ebook
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and assume responsibility for what it takes to achieve a more just and perfect...
Bringing Ben home a murder, a conviction, and the fight to redeem American justice
Bradley Hagerty, Barbara
Ebook
In 1989, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young - a crime he didn't commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was 'an awful mistake.' The Texas legal system didn't see it that way. It allowed shoddy...
Framed astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions
Grisham, John
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly) to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. "Each of these stories is told with astonishing...
The incarcerations BK-16 and the search for democracy in India
Shah, Alpa
Ebook
India, the world's largest democracy, is facing its greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947. The Incarcerations tells the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case, in which 16 human rights defenders (the BK-16) -- professors, lawyers,...
CONSTITUTIONS OF VALUE law, governance, and political ecology
Ebook
Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value. Global value production and transnational value practices that rely on exploitation and extraction have left us with toxic commons and a damaged planet. Against this situation,...
Taking America back the conservative movement and the far right
Walsh, David Austin
Ebook
A provocative look at the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to the end of the Cold War Since 2016, many commentators have expressed shock at the so-called rise of the far right in America at the expense of "responsible" and...

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