Rob Mickey discusses both over- and under-policing and how both shape community perceptions of police. Dr. Mickey recommends Shielded by Joanna Schwartz and Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves by Stuart Schrader.

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Andra Gillespie is the author of The New Black PoliticianCory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America. Dr. Gillespie recommends the works of Drs. Byron D'Andra Orey, LaFleur Stephens-Dougan and Christopher Stout.

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Corey Fields of Georgetown University and author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans, on what Black Republicans can teach us about the complexity of race, identity, and political behavior. Fields recommends Cathy Cohen's The Boundaries of Blackness and Jean Beaman's Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France.

Vanderbilt University Law Professor Jeff Bellin, author of Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover, traces the development of American mass incarceration from the crime increases of the 1960s and 1970s through the expansion of policing, prosecution, sentencing, and imprisonment that followed.

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Liz Norell, Associate Director for Instructional Learning at The University of Mississippi's Center for Teaching and Learning, answers what if the biggest challenge facing higher education isn't technology—but keeping students motivated to learn?

Liz recommends A Pedagogy of Kindness and 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People .

American law draws the line between childhood and adulthood in very different places—with consequences that can last a lifetime.

Professor Cohen recommends: When They Us, Adolescence, and The Rage of Innocence by Kristen Henning.

In re Gault, Roper v. Simmons, Graham v. Florida, Miller v. Alabama, and Jones v. Mississippi.

Bowdoin College's Andrew Rudalevige on how the presidency become so powerful and what it means for American democracy. Rudalevige is the author of By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power and The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate.

Rudalevige recommends: Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan, The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency, The Development of the American Presidency, and the podcasts Presidential and Can He Do That? (now known as Sidebar).

SMU's Matthew Wilson on how religious beliefs shape politics - even for people who rarely think about religion. Wilson is the co-author of Politics and Religion in the United States and From pews to polling places : faith and politics in the American religious mosaic.

Wilson recommends: America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln,