Innovative policies and programs that advance the rights of individuals and communities
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.
Peter Apps' Homesick argues that beneath the housing crisis of rents and shortages is a deeper history of community-unbuilding.
Decolonize Design founder Aida Mariam Davis challenges settler-colonialist paradigms to offer a new pathway to freedom for Black, Indigenous, and oppressed peoples.
In Long Problems, Thomas Hale contends that effective political solutions to climate change are vexed by the issue of coordinating policies over protracted time horizons.
In Poverty, by America, sociologist Matthew Desmond argues that America’s welfare state doesn’t help those who need it the most.
Mónica Guzmán’s I Never Thought of It That Way offers lessons for managing the contentious conversations of our increasingly polarized society.
Ten Global Cities features a range of interventions that can, through dedicated collaboration, provide solutions to homelessness.
Nancy Leong’s Identity Capitalists reveals the profit motives of diversity and inclusion strategies.
The famed author of Bowling Alone returns with a sweeping social history that searches for optimism in a deeply divided America.
A new biography of Madam C. J. Walker shows how America’s first self-made female millionaire and Black entrepreneur put philanthropy at the center of her business and life.
