Government, Law and Public Policy

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

Updated December 12, 2025
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Who is government? the untold story of public service
Lewis, Michael
Ebook
"Perhaps never before has there been a book better timed or more urgent." --Washington Post 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 ...
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...
Money, lies, and God : inside the movement to destroy American democracy
Stewart, Katherine
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS "An eerily prescient guide to the phantasmagoria of our political moment."-The New York Times Book Review "American democracy isn't...
Chokepoints American power in the age of economic warfare
Fishman, Edward (Foreign policy expert)
Ebook
It used to be that ravaging another country's economy required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now all it takes is a statement posted online by the U.S. government. In Chokepoints, Edward Fishman, a former top State Department sanctions official, takes us deep into the back...
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...
Criminal justice in divided America police, punishment, and the future of our democracy
Sklansky, David A.
Ebook
How a broken criminal justice system has fueled the crisis of American democracy, and how we can address both problems together. American criminal justice is in crisis. Prisons are swollen, confidence in police has plummeted, and race- and class-based biases distort every aspect of the...
There is a deep brooding in Arkansas the rape trials that sustained Jim Crow, and the people who fought It, from Thurgood Marshall to Maya Angelou
Stern, Scott W.
Ebook
A sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economic inequities of rape law and the resistance of ordinary women   In the early years of the twentieth century, Mississippi County, Arkansas, was a brutal and...
Inadvertent expansion how peripheral agents shape world politics
Anderson, Nicholas D.
Ebook
In Inadvertent Expansion, Nicholas D. Anderson investigates a surprisingly common yet overlooked phenomenon in the history of great power politics: territorial expansion that was neither intended nor initially authorized by state leaders. Territorial expansion...

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