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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

Tracing decades of school‑choice reform, Cara Fitzpatrick shows how public education is being redefined as a private commodity.

Sep 12, 2023

Cara Fitzpatrick

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

In rural Arkansas, Monica Potts traces one friendship’s path from hope to despair, revealing the struggles of forgotten small‑town America.

May 30, 2023

Monica Potts

Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance

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Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance

Karen Levy shows how digital monitoring in trucking is reshaping work and challenging ideas of autonomy.

Dec 6, 2022

Karen Levy

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv explores the fragile line between diagnosis and identity, showing how mental‑illness narratives can define—or trap—the self.

Sep 13, 2022

Rachel Aviv

Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

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Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

Josh Chin and Liza Lin reveal how China’s Communist Party harnesses Big Data and AI to engineer a new era of social control.

Sep 6, 2022

Josh Chin

Understanding the New Proxy Wars

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Understanding the New Proxy Wars

Sep 1, 2022

Peter Bergen, Candace Rondeaux, Daniel Rothenberg, David Sterman

The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden

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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden

Aug 2, 2022

Peter Bergen

We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power

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We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power

Caleb Gayle uncovers how the Black Creek community’s citizenship crisis reshapes our understanding of identity, race, and power.

May 27, 2022

Caleb J. Gayle

The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches

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The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches

Daniel Bergner explores modern psychiatry, weaving his brother’s journey with neuroscience to challenge how we understand the mind.

May 17, 2022

Daniel Bergner

The Bin Laden Papers

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The Bin Laden Papers

Apr 12, 2022

Nelly Lahoud

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What Parents of Young Kids Want: Insights from the 2026 National Parent Survey

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The Care Disconnect: Americans Misjudge Care Realities, But Know Families Need Help

A Model for Associational Party Building

Redrawing School Boundaries for Fairer Funding

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

Harnessing Terrorism Data to Reshape U.S. National Security Policy

Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate

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Ten Lives

Amy J. Nelson’s The Arms Control Paradox

Community Colleges as Cultivators of Civic Life

Assembling in the Age of AI

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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

Understanding the New Proxy Wars

The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden

We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power

The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches

The Bin Laden Papers