Innovative public sector policies and programs
John Washington’s How to Close a Camp explores the contemporary growth of immigrant detainment facilities under the Trump administration but argues that entrenched political failures are what makes them possible and what must be addressed.
As refugees transform urban spaces, we must build the infrastructure to make it for the good.
Celina Su's Budget Justice is a call to reengage citizenry and build solidarity through participatory democracy.
Iconoclast Sarah Schulman pulls from her decades of activism to present a passionate testimony on living a life of solidarity.
In The Tech Coup, former politician turned AI policy analyst Marietje Schaake warns that governments have ceded too much power to Silicon Valley—to the detriment of the public good.
Premilla Nadasen’s Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism demonstrates how the labor of caring is a site of economic extraction.
In Recoding America, Barack Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer argues that the success of government policies requires better implementation of digital services for the public.
The coauthors of For-Profit Philanthropy recommend policies to reestablish the public’s trust in philanthropy—but did it ever exist?
The Fight for Privacy investigates how governments and businesses violate and profit from our personal lives online.
Claire Dunning’s Nonprofit Neighborhoods examines how the US government funded the growth of—and delegated governance to—the nonprofit sector.
