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Tim Cresswell, "The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

37 mins; April 03, 2026

Amelia Frank-Vitale, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds" (U California Press, 2026)

38 mins; April 02, 2026

Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)

70 hours 7 mins; April 01, 2026

David Ost, "Red Pill Politics: Demystifying Today's Far Right" (New Press, 2026)

39 mins; March 29, 2026

Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

29 mins; March 28, 2026

Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)

28 mins; March 27, 2026

The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America

54 mins; March 26, 2026

Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)

49 mins; March 26, 2026

Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)

63 hours 10 mins; March 21, 2026

Sunmin Kim, "The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

74 hours 1 min; March 19, 2026

⁠The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health⁠

54 mins; March 19, 2026

Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late" (Verso Books, 2025)

52 mins; March 18, 2026

Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Press, 2026)

36 mins; March 16, 2026

Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

40 mins; March 14, 2026

Biko Koenig, "Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2024)

61 hours 21 mins; March 11, 2026

Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress

54 mins; March 10, 2026

Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

48 mins; March 10, 2026

Nicholas Beuret, "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" (Verso, 2025)

63 hours 36 mins; March 06, 2026

Amy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)

54 mins; March 06, 2026

Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)

41 mins; March 05, 2026

Lorraine Grimes, "Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

47 mins; March 04, 2026

Josh Seim, "The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City" (U California Press, 2026)

40 mins; February 24, 2026

Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)

55 mins; February 22, 2026

Joe Williams, "Inequality in the Digital Economy: The Case for a Universal Basic Income" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

50 mins; February 21, 2026

Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique" (U California Press, 2025)

66 hours 59 mins; February 21, 2026

Erick Guerra, "Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction" (Island Press, 2025)

36 mins; February 20, 2026

David Obst, "Saving Ourselves from Big Car" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)

60 hours 41 mins; February 17, 2026

Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)

46 mins; February 14, 2026

Ron Hayduk, "Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States" (Routledge, 2026)

30 mins; February 10, 2026

Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)

55 mins; February 04, 2026

Dafeng Xu, "Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy" (JHU Press, 2026)

53 mins; February 04, 2026

Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

63 hours 36 mins; February 02, 2026

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

44 mins; January 29, 2026

Stephen Bezruchka, "Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

35 mins; January 29, 2026

Tara Lohan, "Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life" (Island Press, 2025)

36 mins; January 27, 2026

Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers" (Edward Elgar, 2025)

45 mins; January 27, 2026

Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)

44 mins; January 26, 2026

George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)

63 hours 6 mins; January 26, 2026

Matteo Gatti, "Corporate Power and the Politics of Change" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

28 mins; January 25, 2026

Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)

30 mins; January 23, 2026

Democracy and Its Inter-Connections

54 mins; January 22, 2026

How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?

55 mins; January 19, 2026

A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)

55 mins; January 17, 2026

Zeke Hernandez, "The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

60 hours 2 mins; January 16, 2026

Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)

54 mins; January 15, 2026

Jamie Rowen, "Worthy of Justice: The Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts in Practice" (Stanford UP, 2025)

25 mins; January 15, 2026

Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

40 mins; January 12, 2026

J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)

57 mins; January 09, 2026

Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)

73 hours 23 mins; January 06, 2026

Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)

74 hours 38 mins; January 04, 2026

James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)

74 hours 23 mins; January 04, 2026

Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)

44 mins; January 01, 2026

Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)

41 mins; January 01, 2026

Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

55 mins; December 30, 2025

Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)

31 mins; December 26, 2025

Nicholas L. Caverly, "Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures" (Stanford UP, 2025)

49 mins; December 26, 2025

Trymaine Lee, "A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America" (St. Martins, 2025)

52 mins; December 25, 2025

Celina Su, "Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities" (Princeton UP, 2025)

35 mins; December 17, 2025

Peter Mancina, "On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State" (NYU Press, 2025)

26 mins; December 17, 2025

Joseph L Graves, "Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It" (Columbia UP, 2025)

27 mins; December 14, 2025

Mirya Holman, "The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy" (Temple UP, 2025)

44 mins; December 14, 2025

Melissa Byrnes, "Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

69 hours 39 mins; December 13, 2025

Peter Newell, "States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

58 mins; December 13, 2025

Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

43 mins; December 04, 2025

Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

43 mins; December 01, 2025

Thomas Princen, "Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future" (MIT Press, 2025)

35 mins; November 29, 2025

Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)

61 hours 21 mins; November 28, 2025

Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)

56 mins; November 28, 2025

Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin

60 hours 55 mins; November 21, 2025

Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change

57 mins; November 20, 2025

Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

54 mins; November 19, 2025

Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)

53 mins; November 18, 2025

On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore

66 hours 15 mins; November 18, 2025

Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

66 hours 7 mins; November 17, 2025

Miranda S. Spivack, "Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back" (The New Press, 2025)

44 mins; November 14, 2025

David Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)

62 hours 27 mins; November 14, 2025

Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)

41 mins; November 11, 2025

Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)

52 mins; November 09, 2025

Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

40 mins; November 08, 2025

Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)

43 mins; November 08, 2025

David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Open Universe, 2025)

32 mins; November 07, 2025

Muhammad H. Zaman, "Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable" (The New Press, 2025)

36 mins; November 04, 2025

Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)

29 mins; November 04, 2025

Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)

51 mins; November 03, 2025

Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)

51 mins; November 02, 2025

Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else" (Columbia UP, 2025)

62 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2025

Amy Shea, "Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

30 mins; October 24, 2025

Joanna Woronkowicz, "Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers" (Stanford UP, 2025)

40 mins; October 23, 2025

Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)

55 mins; October 22, 2025

Teresa M. Mares and Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, "Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain" (U California Press, 2025)

33 mins; October 22, 2025

José Marichal, "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract" (Policy Press, 2025)

32 mins; October 21, 2025

Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)

60 hours 9 mins; October 19, 2025

In Search of Green China: Ma Tianjie on Pan Yue and the CCP’s “Ecological Civilization"

76 hours 13 mins; October 18, 2025

Lily Hsueh, "Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action" (MIT Press, 2025)

36 mins; October 17, 2025

Andrea Freeman, "Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: America’s Politics of Food, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)

60 hours 44 mins; October 17, 2025

Petar Mitric, "The Co-production Landscape in Europe: From Eurimages to Netflix" (Springer Nature, 2025)

49 mins; October 15, 2025

Katherine J. Parkin, "The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

42 mins; October 06, 2025

Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail" (Heresy Press, 2025)

52 mins; October 02, 2025

Michael Rowe, "Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy: Bringing Out the Interpretive Dimensions" (Routledge, 2024)

40 mins; October 01, 2025

John L. Campbell, "Pay Up!: Conservative Myths about Tax Cuts for the Rich" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

34 mins; September 26, 2025

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