Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise quantitative measures of the slant of media outlets. He does this by measuring the political content of news, as a way to...

The little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.

"In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to...

In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: the prominent role of the "dupe." From the Bolshevik Revolution through the Cold War and...

The authors reveal how connections between common sense and power can keep social justice movements divided and marginalized, and they show how to overcome these divisions.

Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate media’s lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the “experts” who, in Goodman’s words, “know so little about so much,...

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us...

The author of From the Ruins of Empire (DB 76629) and The Romantics (DB 52514) explores the origins of the great waves of paranoid hatred that persist throughout the world in the early twenty-first century. Also discusses historical...