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The Prophet’s Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib

The Prophet’s Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib

Hassan Abbas traces the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib to explore enduring debates over leadership, justice, and sectarian legacy in Islam.

Mar 16, 2021

Hassan Abbas

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology

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Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology

A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology.

Mar 2, 2021

Tara Dawson McGuinness, Hana Schank

The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

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The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

Katie Engelhart explores the right‑to‑die movement, revealing how law and clandestine networks shape dignity, choice, and mortality.

Mar 2, 2021

Katie Engelhart

Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Reuben Jonathan Miller reveals how life after incarceration becomes its own form of prison—exposing the hidden cost of freedom in America.

Feb 2, 2021

Reuben Jonathan Miller

Congress Overwhelmed

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Congress Overwhelmed

Dec 7, 2020

Lee Drutman

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Lauren Redniss depicts a clash between sacred land and industry as the San Carlos Apache fight a copper giant for their ancestral mesa.

Nov 17, 2020

Lauren Redniss

What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

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What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

Sara Hendren shows how everyday tools and spaces reflect hidden assumptions—and what our bodies can do when the world evolves.

Aug 18, 2020

Sara Hendren

Ok Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind

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Ok Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind

Jill Filipovic shows how Millennials face debt and climate despair while Boomers cruise ahead, challenging the “snowflake” stereotype.

Aug 11, 2020

Jill N. Filipovic

Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party

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Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party

Julian E. Zelizer traces how Newt Gingrich’s battle to oust the Speaker reshaped Congress and ushered in an era of partisan warfare.

Jul 7, 2020

Julian E. Zelizer

Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food

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Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food

Chase Purdy follows the race to make lab‑grown meat a reality and its battle with the entrenched meat industry.

Jun 16, 2020

Chase Purdy

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

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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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Amy J. Nelson’s The Arms Control Paradox

Community Colleges as Cultivators of Civic Life

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The Prophet’s Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology

The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Congress Overwhelmed

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

Ok Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind

Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party

Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food