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America's Existential Crisis: Our Inherited Obligation to Native Nations is a historical journey and a road trip through "Indian country". The surprising stories of two ancestors of the author lead into the Plains Indian Wars, the 1830 Indian Removal Act, the Potawatomi Trail of Death, and the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee.

We typically view poverty as a technical problem that we can solve with more money, more technology, and more volunteers. But there is an adaptive side to the problem of poverty, as well. Reframing Poverty directs our attention to the emotional and often unconscious mindsets we bring to this issue.

The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability.

In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion, Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America, and the French Revolution to explain how societal decline has common features and themes. Cohn takes us on an easily digestible journey through history. While he unveils the past, his message to us about the present is searing.

This book discusses the actions that the Biden administration should take to provide America and the world with the best leadership.

There was a time in this country when people who were well-off had two homes, and the super-rich may have had three residences. In 2008 a prominent politician was asked how many homes he had. He didn’t know. The number was eight...and in the ensuing years the income gap has only widened. Billionaires now have so much money and power that the very fabric of our nation is coming unraveled. Tax policy is fundamental to a nation’s stability. We need to return to the system that brought us a large, dynamic, educated middle class.

Understanding that the psychological well-being of individuals is inextricably linked to the health of their communities, environments, and cultures, the authors propose a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology to create participatory and dialogical spaces for critical understanding and creative restoration.

Le trafic et la consommation de drogue ont explosé en France depuis dix ans. Une enquête exclusive au cœur du système et des secrets de la lutte anti-drogue. Le livre révèle l'ampleur inédite du trafic de drogue en France et décrit les coulisses de la guerre contre les organisations criminelles. Il s'appuie sur des rapports officiels mais surtout sur des témoignages exceptionnels de policiers, douaniers, magistrats, informateurs, trafiquants et consommateurs.

What does it mean to be poor in the UK and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or "bad life decisions" rather than policy choices or economic inequality. This misleading account has become deeply embedded in the public consciousness with serious ramifications for how financially vulnerable people are seen, spoken about, and treated.

Agenda 2021 presents actions that America must take in 2021 to save America and save planet Earth. Issues, reference books, and necessary actions are specified in policy areas including: Allies, Environment, Pandemic, Defending Democracy, Racial Equality, Economic Reconstruction, Citizens United, Presidential Powers, US Senate, Truth, Sexism, Safety, Education, and Free Press. Author Stacy Holmes warns that failure to take revolutionary action in all of these areas imperils America's future as a representative democracy and imperils the future habitability of planet Earth.

Focusing on disparities in employment, housing, education and health care, Wise argues that racism is indeed still an acute problem in the United States today and that colorblind policies actually worsen the problem of racial injustice. Colorblind presents a timely and provocative look at contemporary racism and offers fresh ideas on what can be done to achieve true social justice and economic equality.

Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the US welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.

Power Shift charts the rise of Latino political power and its impact, from the breakthrough election of the first Mexican American to the Los Angeles City Council in 1949 to today’s leadership of California and its heavyweight role in polarized America. This inspiring story recounts the origins and development of 10 LA-based Latina and Latino leaders who transformed politics and government, forging a progressive political tradition in the process.

Ahead of the pivotal 2020 elections, momentum is building across America to revisit the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that struck down laws protecting unborn children and their mothers nationwide. Life is Winning: Inside the Fight for Unborn Children and Their Mothers tells the story of how the pro-life cause went from an orphaned political “problem” to a winning issue embraced at the highest levels of the Republican Party, thanks to a small-but-ambitious group of pro-life women.

Author Laura Jessy Highbury uses empirical evidence from a range of disciplines - anthropology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition science, social advertising, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning - to examine America's obesity problem.

La crisis provocada por el COVID-19 nos hace vivir en un contexto lleno de incertidumbre. Muchos de nuestros países se encuentran en diferentes niveles de cuarentena y bloqueo y, ya trabajemos para un gobierno, para una empresa privada o para una universidad, sentimos una gran inseguridad respecto a cómo tendremos que proporcionar nuestros servicios o llevar a cabo nuestra planificación.

Covid, i primi vaccinati, la speranza di una vita normale: Vaccino, la risposta biotech dell'Occidente di Maurizio Molinari, La paura del vaccino e il senso della comunità di Massimo Recalcati.

Vaccino anti-Covid - Tempi e destinatari: Nell'hub del vaccino: "I sette passaggi chiave perché tutto funzioni", di Fabio Tonacci; Virus, sì della Ue al primo vaccino. Le consegne alla vigilia di Natale, di Alberto D'argenio; Noi, le tribù svelate dal vaccino, di Gabriele Romagnoli; Sì dell'Aifa, il vaccino arriva. Rischio furti, in campo i Servizi, di Giuliano Foschini e Fabio Tonacci; Peste, colera e vaiolo. Tutte le volte che i vaccini hanno cambiato la storia di Corrado Augias.

Til overraskelse for mange er arbejderklassen stadig langt den største klasse i Danmark. 41 procent er faglærte og ufaglærte med almindelige job. Og 21 procent af danskerne i den erhvervsaktive alder står langvarigt uden for arbejdsmarkedet. Det er kun 1,6 %, der tilhører overklassen: selvstændige, topledere og nøglemedarbejdere med indkomster over 1,2 million. Men det er dem, der bestemmer på de store arbejdspladser, i kultur og medier og generelt i samfundslivet.

Finanskrise, klimaforandringer og voksende social og økonomisk ulighed har de seneste år fået stadig flere til at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved den kapitalistiske økonomi. Samtidig er socialistiske idéer om en demokratisering af økonomien igen sat på dagsordenen. Men hvordan kan økonomien styres mere demokratisk? Hvad betyder det at demokratisere ejerskabet, og hvem skal egentlig eje virksomheder og banker? Hvilken rolle skal markedsmekanismer spille? Og hvordan skaber vi en økonomi, der sikrer mest mulig frihed og indflydelse for den enkelte.

Nadie esperaba mucho de ellos. Todos - políticos y sociólogos, analistas y politólogos - daban a los mayores españoles por amortizados y semienterrados. Habían sacado la cabeza entre las mareas de indignación que nos visitan de manera periódica, sobre todo desde el 11-M - los famosos yayoflautas - pero nadie esperaba que su función fuera más allá de la de meros comparsas.

Deutschland am Wendepunkt: Wie lässt sich die zunehmende Spaltung der Gesellschaft verhindern? Wir befinden uns in einer historisch einmaligen Situation. Die Corona-Pandemie verändert unser Land grundlegend - und sie zeigt uns in aller Schärfe, was gut und was schlecht ist. Viele Menschen befürchten, dass sich die Ungleichheit in Deutschland durch Corona weiter vertiefen wird. Mit der fortschreitenden Privatisierung des Sozialstaates vollzieht sich seit Langem eine immer rasantere soziale Spaltung des Landes.

In den Jahren 2020 und 2021, der Zeit der Covid-19-Pandemie, ereignete sich ein bemerkenswertes Schauspiel. Während der weitaus größte Teil der Menschen Empathie mit den Schwachen und besonders Gefährdeten zeigte, entpflichtete sich eine Minderheit davon und rebellierte gegen die staatlichen Maßnahmen zum Schutz der Gesundheit aller Bürger. Für Richard David Precht ein Anlass, darüber nachzudenken, was eigentlich die Pflicht des Fürsorge- und Vorsorgestaates gegenüber seinen Bürgern ist und was die Pflicht seiner Bürger.

Più armi uguale più sicurezza. Un'equazione trasformata in slogan, una convinzione che ha spinto il 40 per cento degli italiani ad affermare che si sentirebbe più sicuro con una pistola in casa. Più armi uguale più femminicidi. Ecco un'altra equazione, ma questo non è uno slogan, è la semplice constatazione di una tragica realtà. Una pistola è costruita per sparare, per ferire o uccidere. O anche per uccidersi. Luca Di Bartolomei, figlio di Agostino, famoso calciatore che venticinque anni fa si suicidò con una Smith & Wesson 38 acquistata credendo di proteggere la sua famiglia.

Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers’s life’s work. It’s a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth.

We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988. Women’s unemployment rose to nearly fifteen percent, and globally women lost over $800 billion in wages. Fifty-one percent of women say that their mental health has declined, while anxiety and depression rates have skyrocketed.

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar today: the war on alcohol was waged disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor White communities.

While certainly flawed in many aspects - the New Deal was implemented by a Democratic Party still beholden to the segregationist South for its majorities in Congress and the Electoral College - the New Deal was instated at a time of mass unemployment and the rise of fascistic government models and functioned as a bulwark of American democracy in hard times. This book looks at how this legacy, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises.

The American dream of equal opportunity is in peril. America's economic inequality is shocking, poverty threatens to become a heritable condition, and our healthcare system is crumbling despite ever increasing costs. In this thought-provoking book, Edward D. Kleinbard demonstrates how the failure to acknowledge the force of brute luck in our material lives exacerbates these crises leading to warped policy choices that impede genuine equality of opportunity for many Americans.

In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed.