April 25, 2023

Max Gillman on The Spectre of Price Inflation

“Why are prices so high? Is this a temporary spike due to Covid or the war in Ukraine?” In my new book, The Spectre of Price Inflation, I argue that our current predicament of price inflaction is unlikely to be...

April 18, 2023

Three Reforms That Congressional Committees Should Institute

Maya L. Kornberg

Committees are essential institutions in Congress. My book, Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative Process, unpacks the contemporary legislative process to show what is working, what isn’t, and what can be changed. Based on my research, here...

April 14, 2023

25 Must-Read Books for Earth Month 2023

During Earth Month, people worldwide unite to awaken our environmental consciousness and raise awareness of our planet’s health. The books on this list speak to the challenges we face today, including climate change, natural disasters, climate resilience, living and conducting...

April 13, 2023

Five Steps You Can Take to Jump-Start Action on Climate Change

Michael Gunter, Jr.

Climate change. That’s a polarizing phrase in America, one that too often shuts down discussion before it ever begins. Heck, former Florida governor and now sitting U.S. Senator Rick Scott banned state officials from even using the term during his...

April 11, 2023

Why (Expert) Human Talk Matters in the Age of ChatGPT

Alex Preda

We live in an era of techno-financial capitalism in which financial trading is largely conducted by machines and the spoken word doesn’t seem to play much of a role anymore. We have come a long way from the time when...

April 6, 2023

The Truth About Rising CO₂ and Its Effect on Plant Biology

Lewis H. Ziska

We recognize that the global concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping gasses is rising, that global warming, or climate change, is going to be a consequence. For many people, that consequence is seen through images that have become...

April 5, 2023

Learning from Nature How to Inhabit the Earth

Henry Dicks

Earth Month provides an opportunity not just to raise environmental awareness but also to think more deeply about alternative ways of inhabiting the earth. In my new book, The Biomimicry Revolution: Learning from Nature How to Inhabit the Earth, I...

April 4, 2023

Rob Verchick in Conversation with Robyn Massey About The Octopus in the Parking Garage

In November 2016, Richard Conlin discovered an unexpected guest in his parking garage: an octopus. The photos he took quickly went viral, but to Rob Verchick, a leading climate law scholar and the author of The Octopus in the Parking...

March 7, 2023

How Women Steered Early Cancer Awareness Campaigns

Elaine Schattner

Elaine Schattner, author of From Whispers to Shouts, discusses how women laid the groundwork for modern cancer awareness through grassroots efforts, fundraising, disseminating vital information, and challenging the stigma surrounding the disease. She also highlights the role of organizations like the American Society for the Control of Cancer (ASCC).

March 6, 2023

Susan J. Wolfson on Mary Wollstonecraft and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

It was so exciting, so interesting, so educational, so sobering, so exhilarating to plan, research, and write On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Sobering because my grandmother, born in the 1890s, was a suffragist; sobering because...

March 3, 2023

Married Women’s Property Rights and Enslavement in the Pre–Civil War South

Sara Chatfield

When we think about women’s history, the suffrage movement is often one of the first topics that comes to mind. But individual states, largely before women had the right to vote, enacted reforms that significantly expanded the economic rights of...

March 2, 2023

Narrative Activism

#MeToo from Harriet Jacobs to Tarana Burke

Leigh Gilmore

Especially in its early months in 2017, #MeToo was often described as unprecedented. Social media received credit for bringing a new level of public awareness to the scale of sexual abuse and, as a result, generating consequences for abusers. Certainly,...