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Greening the Global Economy

In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that

Robert Pollin

Literature & Culture

Conflict in Ukraine

The 2014 conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since

Rajan Menon, Eugene Rumer

Literature & Culture

Lurching Toward Happiness in America

The promise of America has long been conceived as the promise of happiness. But in the cacophony of

Claude S. Fischer

Science & Nature

A Case for Climate Engineering

Keith explores a challenging proposal; climate engineering is no silver bullet.

David Keith

Boston Review Books

A Constitution for All Time

A highly informative and accessible look at our nation’s governing document

Pamela S. Karlan

Boston Review Books

The Syria Dilemma

This book focuses on the ethical and political dilemmas at the heart of the debate about Syria and the possibility of humanitarian intervention in today’s world.

Danny Postel, Nader Hashemi

Class & Inequality, Education & Opportunity

Giving Kids a Fair Chance

Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that early childhood intervention can improve the economic and social mobility of children born into disadvantage. At a time when state and local budgets for early interventions are being cut, Heckman issues an urgent call for action and offers some practical steps for how to design and pay for new programs. 

James J. Heckman

Class & Inequality, Education & Opportunity

Occupy the Future

The writers—including Nobel Laureate in Economics Kenneth Arrow and bestselling authors Paul and Anne Ehrlich—lay out what our country’s principles are, whether we’re living up to them, and what can be done to bring our institutions into better alignment with them.

David B. Grusky, Rob Reich, Debra Satz, Doug McAdam

Class & Inequality

Shopping for Good

Dara O’Rourke, the activist-scholar who first broke the news about Nike’s sweatshops in the 1990s, considers the promise of ethical consumption—the idea that individuals, voting with their wallets, can promote better labor conditions and environmental outcomes globally.

Dara O’Rourke

Class & Inequality

Back To Full Employment

Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States—today faced with its highest level of unemployment since the Great Depressio—should put full employment back on the agenda.

Robert Pollin

Global Justice, Literature & Culture

Blaming Islam

John Bowen uncovers the myths about Islam and Muslim integration into Western society, with a focus on the histories, policy, and rhetoric associated with Muslim immigration in Europe, the British experiment with sharia law for Muslim domestic disputes, and the claims of European and American writers that Islam threatens the West.

John Bowen

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Border Wars

Border Wars offers a stark portrait of the domestic cost of failed federal leadership in the post-9/11 era.

Tom Barry

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