Government, Law and Public Policy

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

Updated June 5, 2026
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Who is government? the untold story of public service
Lewis, Michael
Ebook
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2025 SUMMER READS AS SEEN ON CBS MORNINGS, CNN ANDERSON COOPER, ABC NEWS LIVE, MSNBC MORNING JOE, AND MANY MORE "This eye-opening, multifaceted ode to public service. . ....
Giving up is unforgivable a manual for keeping a democracy
Vance, Joyce
Ebook
Instant New York Times bestseller A political manifesto for our present moment-part history lesson, part call to save the Republic "Brilliant, galvanizing, and inspirational. A road map to help us find our way out of the darkness." -Mary L. Trump ...
Their accomplices wore robes how the Supreme Court chained black America to the bottom of a racial caste system
Starkey, Brando Simeo
Ebook
A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court-even more than the...
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...
Justice abandoned how the Supreme Court ignored the Constitution and enabled mass incarceration
Barkow, Rachel E.
Ebook
An influential legal scholar argues that the Supreme Court played a pivotal role in the rise of mass incarceration in America. With less than 5 percent of the world's population and almost a quarter of its prisoners, America indisputably has a mass incarceration problem. How did...
The right of the people democracy and the case for a new American founding
Nwanevu, Osita
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A bold case for reimagining the American project and making American democracy real--from a formidable new voice in political journalism "The first thing I've read that provides a rigorous vision of how to refound this nation if we manage to survive the...
Original sin President Biden's decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again
Tapper, Jake
Ebook
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Kirkus Reviews, and The Associated Press "Superbly reported . . . Reads like a Shakespearean drama on steroids." -- Los Angeles Times...
Truths the future of America First
Ramaswamy, Vivek
Ebook
New York Times bestselling author, accomplished entrepreneur, and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has a plan to save America, and it begins with telling the truth. Today's conservatives know what they're against. They're anti-woke, anti-globalist, anti-big...
The myth of American idealism how U.S. foreign policy endangers the world
Chomsky, Noam
Ebook
"For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky." --The New Statesman A sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support it, and an urgent warning of the threat that U.S....
Money, lies, and God : inside the movement to destroy American democracy
Stewart, Katherine
Paper Book
"An indispensable citizen's guide to the anti-democratic MAGA Right in America . . . This is a vibrant ideological ecosystem but Stewart explains why the vast majority of Americans must reject its dark vision and defeat its politicians."-Congressman Jamie Raskin The...
Against constitutional originalism a historical critique
Gienapp, Jonathan
Ebook
A detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional history from which it derives interpretive authority   "What are the chances that, in 2024, a new book could fundamentally reorient how we...
Defectors the rise of the Latino far right and what it means for America
Ramos, Paola
Ebook
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 * An award-winning journalist's exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics "A deeply reported, surprisingly personal...

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