Political & Social Science

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“may be as close as most of us will ever come to understanding isolation, a sentence described by William Blake as ‘worse than death.’”

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The Mudd Club was the Brigadoon of the late ’70s New York City music scene.

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“essential primer for anyone seeking to understand the complicated brew of history, politics, and prejudices that make this area of the globe one of the most likely flashpoints of the 21st

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". . . read this evocative collection of stories about young people who are making a difference in environmental and political stewardship."

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". . . bound to be a starting point for further research into minority groups in the U.S. and abroad."

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"Kepel skilfully knits together the threads of unemployment in France’s urban departements and how fake news and conspiracy theories help to quickly move the process of radicalizat

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“Elizabeth Warren continues to be a forceful advocate for the needs of ordinary, hard-working Americans . . .”

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The urban doughnut, in planning parlance, has inverted.

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The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment at the hands of the government.

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Understanding Trump is one of those books that can be quickly pasted together and sold in an airport bookstore. . . .

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As Donald Trump might claim, we are the largest audience to witness what is possibly the biggest ever corporate coup, the takeover of a country.

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“Radicals Chasing Utopia could influence you to chase after some of these utopian organizations and ideas, or make you want to flee from them just the same.”  

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Ever since Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, the words “white working class” have had a hocus-pocus power in American politics.

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Americans should pay close attention to Malcolm Nance.

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On any given day, the daily tumult of presidential politics and the reconfigured political paradigm have given voters a new set of keywords and phrases that bedevil the Administration and have the

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Atlanta is an alpha city, playing a significant role on the world stage as a major transportation hub and influential financial and economic center with key national and global functions.

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Wallace Shawn is, by his own admission, a lucky man. Through no particular talent or effort on his part, he wound up on the privileged side of the class divide.

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“The criminal justice system is in need of a seismic shift, and Kelley, Pitman, and Streusands' proposal is exactly the kind of major change needed.”

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Anyone interested in gender equality is by now used to Rwanda coming very high on the international gender scoreboards.

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“The book is a roadmap to where the ‘immoral’ crosses the line to the ‘illegal,’ a boundary not fixed, but a terrain of social struggle that shifts over time.”

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“provides a firm foundation for understanding the effect the women’s movement had on the political process.”

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This timely publication addresses much of the misinformation about the trans community that persists despite increasing media coverage both popular and serious.

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Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, has worked for both presidents of the Bush clan, through the Gulf War and the Iraq provocation, and into the current presidential cabinet.

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Every generation spawns a handful of academics who become public intellectual rock stars resonating across a broad swath of social concerns far beyond their specific specializations.

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