Government, Law and Public Policy

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

Updated September 2, 2024
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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...
White rural rage the threat to American democracy
Schaller, Thomas F.
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . A searing portrait and damning takedown of America's proudest citizens-who are also the least likely to defend its core principles "This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age...
The primary solution : rescuing our democracy from the fringes
Troiano, Nick
Paper Book
In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. The Primary Solution is the "thought-provoking" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) answer the country needs. Congress has become an unproductive...
Our ancient faith Lincoln, democracy, and the American experiment
Guelzo, Allen C.
Ebook
An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today--by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize "It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy...
How to steal a presidential election
Lessig, Lawrence
Ebook
From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen--by entirely legal means   "Their new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for...
One nation under guns how gun culture distorts our history and threatens our democracy
Erdozain, Dominic
Ebook
This "brilliant and gut-wrenching" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms--and that this distortion of the record is an...
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 masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear...
Rebellion how antiliberalism is tearing America apart-again
Kagan, Robert
Ebook
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in...
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
Renegade defending democracy and liberty in our divided country
Kinzinger, Adam
Ebook
On January 6, 2021, America watched in horror as a violent mob led by right-wing extremist groups stormed the U.S. Capitol in support of then-President Donald Trump. It was one of the darkest days in recent history, yet to former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger it was also the culmination of a...
The internationalists the fight to restore American foreign policy after Trump
Ward, Alexander
Ebook
When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy experts in modern U.S. history. Their mission: repair America's damaged reputation abroad and decide the course of its global future. The challenges and...
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...
Illiberal America : a history
Hahn, Steven
Paper Book
A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking "That's not us." But now we must think again, for Steven Hahn...
The ecology of nations American democracy in a fragile world order
Owen, John M.
Ebook
How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor--and why democracies are losing   "Owen makes a powerful case that the fate of American democracy hinges on the health and welfare of other democracies."--Foreign Affairs<...
Hit 'em where it hurts : how to save democracy by beating Republicans at their own game
Bitecofer, Rachel
Paper Book
A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can win elections at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation's democracy "Bitecofer hits hard against the GOP tactics of fear and anger and the Democrats' status quo narratives around...

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