Gabby

AS INDIVIDUALS, CONGRESSWOMAN GABRIELLE GIFFORDS and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, showed Americans how optimism, an adventurous spirit, and a call to service can help change the world. As a coup...

Localism

After They Killed Our Father

In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings,...

In Sickness and In Power

This study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007 considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the process of government and decision-making, leading to acts...

The Man Who Saw Everything

Longlisted for the Booker PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year By: The New York Times Book Review (Notable Books of the Year) * The New York Public Library * The Washington Post * Time.com * The New Yor...

The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita H...

The Torture Debate in America

As a result of the work assembling the documents, memoranda, and reports that constitute the material in The Torture Papers the question of the rationale behind the Bush administration's decision to c...

Tall Order

Goh Chok Tong was an improbable Prime Minister for an unlikely country. He had neither the connections nor the cunning to rise to the top, and was even once famously derided by his mentor Lee Kuan Yew...

Life after Dictatorship

Life after Dictatorship launches a new research agenda on authoritarian successor parties worldwide. Authoritarian successor parties are parties that emerge from authoritarian regimes, but that operat...

Das Kreuz mit dem C

Das ''C'' der CDU/CSU - welche Bedeutung wird ihm in der aktuellen Politik noch zugemessen? Der versierte Politikjournalist Martin Lohmann stellt den C-Parteien im Superwahljahr 2009 ebenso provokant...