Social science / Political science

The War on Terror

by the Speech Resource Company & Robert Wikstrom – The Speech Resource Company, Inc. (August 07, 2018)

As a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, America led a global counterterrorism campaign of limitless scope. Its military dimension involved major wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, covert operations...

Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

by Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, Sneha Mathan & Jim Meskimen – Blackstone Publishing (September 26, 2017)

In this rich dialogue on surveillance, empire, and power, Roy and Cusack describe meeting with National Security Agency whistleblower Ed Snowden.

In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg...

Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

by Alexander Keyssar & Stephen Bowlby – Blackstone Publishing (January 19, 2021)

With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of this controversial...