Politics & Government Books

Founded in 1937, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, has trained more than 20,000 professional mariners—and, in the process,...

Congressman Tom Tancredo explains in cogent, rational detail how America is heading down the road to ruin. He believes that the incredible economic...

The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 200...

On a moonless night in the early 1790s, prisoner Mary Bryant, her husband William, her two small children, and seven other convicts stole a twenty-...

#1 New Release in Demography ─ Millennials vs. All Other GenerationsReaders of The Next America by Paul Taylor, Generation Me by Jean M. Twenge, Th...

A Vietnamese Refugee, a Viral Video, and the United Airlines Scandal That Started It All“His refusal to give up his seat on a United Airlines fligh...

There is a hidden country within the United States. It was formed from the astonishing number of secrets held by the government and the growing ra...

Radio talking head Ziegler has been fired numerous times in his career for using language or terms deemed inappropriate. He talks about how this wo...

America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these...

In public and private  circles, the mere mention of race or the charge of racism generates a predictable response: silence. in Culture Whiplash, la...

Why conservatism equals terrible government-and always willTax cuts that produce gargantuan budget deficits, an ill-conceived war that has diminish...

"For years," Burt Prelutsky says, "the ranks of the Right were so bereft of amusing people they had to point to William F. Buckley Jr. as their tok...

In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine–and explains how to move around the...

Peoplehood—everyone's talking about it. But what does it actually mean and why is it important to the future of Judaism? "Why is this conversation ...

In The Blue Book of Freedom, R. J. Rummel asserts that democracy is the solution to the scourges that face the world. A student of war and peace fo...

What you need to know now about America's energy future "Hi, I'm the United States and I'm an oil-oholic." We have an energy problem. And everybod...

Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People"The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of the Israelis, the way politics is a ...

"A stinging account of how public policy and private businesses have failed to adapt to working mothers."--Jennifer Ludden, NPR Why life is har...

As the Cold War reaches its height, so does postwar prosperity, and the American people celebrate their optimism by electing as president the young...

One of America’s best-known progressive commentators reveals that, far from betraying conservative ideals, George W. Bush’s administration has beha...

An eye-opening exposé of America's torture regime Myths about torture abound: Waterboarding is the worst we've done. The soldiers were hardened pr...

Everything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles...

Chronicles the damage Thomas Friedman's flat wrong, Flat Earth ideas have caused to the American economy As Martin Sieff convincingly argues, Thom...

"For eight years, Nancy Soderberg served with distinction and creativity at the highest levels of American government. She is uniquely positioned t...