Polls have repeatedly shown that about a third of the electorate refuses to abandon Donald Trump, no matter what he does. Those voters aren't looking for policy wins; they're seeing cultural revenge. In Trumpocalypse, David Frum looks at the causes of our tragic national fragmentation and lays out a plan to restore a democracy at home--and renew American leadership abroad. It is not enough to defeat Donald Trump in 2020. Even if Trump peacefully departs...

The United States has more mass shootings, gun suicides, and nonfatal gun injuries than any other industrialized country in the world. Volsky believes that in order to significantly and permanently reduce gun deaths the United States, we need a bold new approach: a drastic reduction of the 390 million guns already in circulation and a new movement dedicated to a future with fewer guns. He suggests bold reforms that have succeeded in reducing gun violence...

Brave: Young Women's Global Revolution has two volumes: 1) Global Issues and 2) Regional Activism. What makes Brave revolutionary is its global rather than regional reach and its rare inclusion of many young women's actual voices from around the world. Brave explores young women's global activism, based on hundreds of interviews-some videotaped and online, and over 4,000 surveys from 88 countries. The book includes popular cultural references and...

From the preface: A democracy is a system of government by the eligible members of a nation, typically through elected representatives. If the majority of these elected officials do not represent a nation's citizens, if instead they chiefly represent the interests of one affluent class, that nation is not a democracy. In the United States, the wealthy 1 percent, and the wealthier 0.1 percent, pay for the campaigns of the vast majority of the candidates...

Se suele entender por objeción de conciencia la resistencia no violenta al cumplimiento de una norma jurídica -legal o contractual-, con base en las más íntimas, personales e irrenunciables convicciones éticas o religiosas. Su desarrollo jurídico en Colombia ha tenido como punto de referencia principal la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional, aunque pueden identificarse algunas referencias legislativas. Desde la entrada en vigor de la...

Howard Zinn's cogent defense of civil disobedience with a new introduction by the author. In this slim volume, Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest, and challenges the dominant arguments against forms of protest that challenge the status quo. Zinn explores the politics of direct action, nonviolent civil disobedience, and strikes, and draws lessons for today.

From Reagan's regular invocation of America as "a city on a hill" to Obama's use of spiritual language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric is a regular part of how candidates communicate with voters. Although the Constitution explicitly forbids a religious test as a qualification to public office, many citizens base their decisions about candidates on their expressed religious beliefs and values. In Religious Rhetoric and American Politics,...

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have become more popular, many contend that they have also become less connected to actual centers of power and the jurisdictions where...

La Unión Europea negocia con Estados Unidos un Tratado Transatlántico de Comercio e Inversión (TTIP) a espaldas de la población. Un tratado cuya firma está considerada una prioridad política. A pesar de que el Tratado se ha publicitado como un motor de crecimiento económico, las negociaciones y el contenido del TTIP se han mantenido ocultos hasta que, tras numerosas denuncias y presiones de organizaciones y movimientos sociales, la Comisión...

Chronicles the damage Thomas Friedman's flat wrong, "Flat Earth" ideas have caused to the American economy As Martin Sieff convincingly argues, Thomas Friedman's prescriptions have played a major role in causing America's economic decline, yet many executives and politicians, including President Obama, still look to him as their guru. Sieff exposes Friedman fallacies on the nature of globalization, the information technology revolution, political...