Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate;Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.The civil righ...

Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience are two wildly different books Henry David Thoreau wrote around the same time. Walden chronicles Thoreau's decision to isolate himself in a cabin in Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Meanwhile,On...

For the last 25 years, William Bennett Turner has taught a course on the First Amendment at UC Berkeley. His book, Figures of Speech, describes the colorful characters who have played roles in important First Amendment c...

In America today, there are government agencies writing regulations for themselves that have the force of law which can undermine and erode our constitutional rights and guarantees. Rogue bureaucrats seeking their own glory and pow...

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities a...

H. G. Wells’s passionate and influential manifesto—never before available in the United States—was first published in England in 1940 in response to World War I. The progressive ideas Wells set out were instrumental in the creat...

A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Gunfight is a timely work examining America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the ...