Following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why Jews were central to the transatlantic gem trade and its growth into a global industry. Learn More

The little-known story of poor and working-class whites, urban ethnic groups, and Black Panthers organizing side by side for social justice in the 1960s and '70s. Learn More

This real-life Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to anti-immigrant militias and vigilantes. Learn More

In My Quest for Health Equity, Dr. Satcher takes an inspiring and instructive look inside his fifty-year career to shed light on the challenge and burden of leadership. Explaining that he has thought of each leadership role—whether in academia, community, or government—as an opportunity to move the needle toward health equity, he shares the hard-won lessons he has learned over a lifetime in the medical field. Learn More

"Fake news" is not new. Just like millions of Americans today, the revolutionaries of the eighteenth century worried that they were entering a "post-truth" era. Their fears, however, were not fixated on social media, but rather on peoples' increasing reliance on news gathered from foreign newspapers. In Misinformation Nation, Jordan E. Taylor reveals how foreign news defined the boundaries of American politics and ultimately drove colonists to revolt against Britain and create a new nation. Learn More

An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species. Learn More

Made to Stick by Chip Heath meets Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe in this guide to navigating today's post-truth landscape, filled with examples of modern-day propaganda campaigns. Learn More

Full of unique insights and inside stories, The Scheme pulls back the curtain on a powerful and hidden apparatus that has spent years trying to corrupt our politics, control our courts, and degrade our democracy. Learn More

In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff answers the question, Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? Learn More

The essential road map for understanding—and defending—your right to privacy in the twenty-first century. Learn More

The year 2020 was a tumultuous time in American politics. The Bitter End explores the long-term trends and short-term shocks that shaped this dramatic year and what these changes could mean for the future. Learn More

A look at the long history of epidemics and pandemics provides an enthralling account of what we can expect of a post-COVID world. Learn More

When AI Rules the World is an investigation and call to action into AI technologies for a nation that does not yet comprehend the full gravity of the AI revolution. The United States is losing the race for AI dominance, and the stakes couldn't be higher. Learn More

CBS Chief Washington Correspondent and the nation's foremost elections expert counter Trump's Big Lie about 2020 election fraud with indisputable fact, profiles of the guardians of democracy who ran a fair and accurate vote, and in-depth reporting on methods being undertaken right now to undercut faith, belief, and effectiveness of elections with potentially dire consequences for the 2022 midterm election and beyond. Learn More

Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world―the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil sands flowing into the US would turn out to be one of the biggest reasons for the world's failure to stop the climate crisis. Learn More

A behind-the-scenes look at how the rich and powerful use offshore shell corporations to conceal their wealth and make themselves richer. Learn More

A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of "bad" speech on the internet within the American context. Learn More

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. Learn More

You've read White Fragility and How to Be an Antiracist, but what comes next? The answer lies in this clear, actionable guide providing an invaluable four-week program for becoming an ally who makes a real difference in the racial justice fight. Learn More