Political

Saying the right thing during an encounter with the police can mean the difference between going home and going to jail.…

This book begins with a detailed summation of what the author calls the Terror Timeline, a series of events that led up…

LGBT people are some of the coolest in history – Freddie Mercury, Divine, Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietrich, Andy…

Valérie Plante stood up to the patriarchal power system of her city, took down an incumbent, and became the first woman…

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor…

The thoughtful, point-by-point case for abolishing and defunding the police. This book shows the corrupt origins of…

By shedding their shame and telling their stories, the contributors to this volume of the long-running comics series…

This is the story of a century and a half of participation by black people in US electoral politics from Reconstruction…

From America's leading whistleblower's attorney—the third updated edition of his layman's guide to the legal do's and…

After a domestic terrorist unleashes a dirty bomb in Manhattan in 1970, making the borough uninhabitable, the federal…

A full-color pocket-sized manifesto far the feminism of the future. The starting point of this radical, boldly-designed…

A leading millennial climate activist and a former Massachusetts state representative makes clear what needs to happen…

By visually interpreting the complete text of the supreme law of the land with more than a century of American pop…

When Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1953, he refused to patent it, forgoing profit so that more lives could…

An irreverent and informative primer on how to make a difference is organized into three sections: The Why, The What,…

In October 2018, scientists warned that we have fewer than 12 years left to move away from fossil fuels, or face…

"We will not kill for your profits. We will not sacrifice for your profits." These words were stenciled in mud by Iraq…

A collection of powerful, lyrical essays by Rebecca Solnit at her best: Drawing the connections we haven't yet put…

Rediscover the radical potential of art with this antidote to those purply grey old art history textbooks they make…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (or RGB) has become a name synonymous with feminist shifts in our judicial system. But how much do…

Another book from James Loewen, author of the now classic, Lies My Teacher Told Me. This time around, James begins to…

A gorgeous, full-color coffee table book of photos and text celebrating the life and career of Supreme Court Justice…

As the title suggests, you'll get that down-low you needed to understand how to vote. Learn how to get your vote out…

The Notorious RBG! Dramatically narrated case histories interwoven with an account of RBG’s life and her…

Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of a…

There is more than one truth about most things. The Internet disseminates knowledge but it also spreads hatred. Eating…

"I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a Black man in a white world. In 1972,…

The Battle of Mactan on April 27, 1521 marked the first organized Filipino resistance against colonization.