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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color....

The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood....

From the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters.

Your job. Your health. Your family. All targeted by a radical plan YOU don't even know about. Project 2025 is a blueprint for a future that's not yours. It threatens your right to choose, your financial security, and the very fabric of American life.

A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....

How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom.

Crooked Smile details one man's journey that left him homeless on Skid Row, and what it took to escape a decade of addiction.

Trailblazing social justice leader, activist, and cofounder of the Women’s March Tamika D. Mallory shares a raw, heartfelt memoir of perseverance, redemption, and triumph.

At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

Veteran journalist Anne Kim investigates the multiple industries that infiltrate almost every aspect of the lives of the poor—health care, housing, criminal justice, and nutrition.

Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era....

In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.”....

For a dozen years as one of the world’s most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. My Life in Full offers a firsthand view of Nooyi’s legendary career and the sacrifices it so often demanded....

Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....

Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all....

From the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair....

Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....

Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....

The pope cites the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change and does not hesitate to detail how it is the result of a historic level of unequal distribution of wealth....

As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to love, cutting into all the hubris, ambition, idiocy, desperation, and self-deception for everyone to see....

You are no doubt a busy professional with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study in preparation for the ASWB exam. However, the truth is that the ASWB test is a challenging test. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test.

This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals.

"Copaganda" is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media. It stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it. As the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than it did in 1970—despite record low crime rates—a sprawling and profitable punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate what we think that bureaucracy does and why.

In Losing Big, historian Jonathan D. Cohen lays out the astonishing emergence of online sports gambling, from sportsbook executives drafting legislation to an addicted gambler confessing their $300,000 losses. Sports gambling is here to stay, and the stakes could not be higher. Losing Big explains how this brewing crisis came to be, and how it can be addressed before new generations get hooked.

DEI Exposed puts the spotlight on a Big Con: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster real collective safety. As she vividly depicts here, incarceration takes away the very things that might enable people to build better lives.

In today’s America, the radical Left isn’t trying to build a better country — they’re trying to tear it down. From defunding police and erasing borders to indoctrinating children and pushing the world to the brink of global conflict, the modern Democratic Party has embraced chaos, division, and anti-Americanism as its defining agenda. Outrageous is the explosive exposé that pulls no punches. Wayne C. Robinson reveals the dangerous ideas taking root in our politics—and how they’re threatening your family, your freedoms, and your future. Inside, you’ll discover: Why Democrats ...