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An honest reckoning with the Forever War, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who came to question his belief in the U.S.'s democratizing missionIn the winter of 2006, Lyle Jeremy Rubin arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School in Quantico, Virginia. He'd joined the Marines convinced he was fulfilling his duty to his country. He believed the “war on terror” was necessary to national security, and would help to bring democracy and freedom to Afghanistan. And he sought a version of manhood that he thought military service could provide. Honorably discharged in 2011, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his ideals, about himself or his country, intact.Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body is a story of profound personal and political change. Rubin, a supervisor of men ordered to kill, shares his experiences on training bases in North Carolina, California, and Afghanistan, tracking his inc

A recent history of the Democratic party that identifies the chronic errors that lead Dem politicians to act like also-rans even when they're in power―and urgently argues against a return to the status quoIn Chaotic Neutral, political scientist Ed Burmila tracks the evolution (or devolution) of the Democratic Party―from the New Deal era to the pandemic, when, even in the midst of a genuine national crisis, the Dems could not manage to pass sweeping progressive legislation.Why did the Democrats initially abandon their principles, and why haven’t they been able to grasp that they need a new strategy in the face of decades of diminishing returns? Political scientist Ed Burmila has some idea and he breaks it to us, tracing the party’s metamorphosis from bold defender of labor rights, civil rights, and a robust social safety net to timorous, pragmatic, ideology-free, regulation-averse lifestyle brand. Chaotic Neutral takes a systematic approach, using historical narrative to identify ten mi

The thrilling narrative of an unlikely friendship and a Guatemalan migrant-hacker's journey, revealing the chaos and cruelty U.S. immigration policies have unleashed even beyond our borders In 2015, several years before migrant caravans were making headlines, Levi Vonk, a young anthropologist and journalist, went to Mexico to live and work with migrants, in defiance of the conservative politics of his Southern hometown. There he made a friend who would change the course of his life--and quite possibly the course of Mexican history along with it.Axel Kirschner was a lifelong New Yorker, all Queens hustle and bravado, having been brought to the U.S from Guatemala at only a year old. But he was also undocumented. When he met Levi in Mexico in 2015, after being deported for a minor traffic violation, Axel was fighting to get home to his young kids in Queens. While on its surface, Axel's story is an archetypal one, Vonk soon discovered that he was harboring a secret: Axel was a hacker. This

A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities -- and a look inside the fight for its future. Every day, in dance studio

A clear-eyed account of the forces hijacking progress on climate change, and a bold vision of what it takes to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.It has become impossible to deny th

In cities large and small across America, universities have become the dominant companies — and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.Urban universities

From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos — and a call for a more just practice of science. In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weins

A damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-black colonialism continue to inform our modern world.Colonialism and imperialism are often thought to be distant memories

Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.The events of the past decade, in particular the election of Donald T

One of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2019An award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a profoundly misguided industry--and have done little to bring equa

A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech -- and how we can reclaim it.There's a critical