Politics and Government

Congress enacted the Wilderness Act in 1964. This act created the National Wilderness Preservation System, reserved to Congress the authority to de...

The legalization of marijuana has spread rapidly throughout the US, from just a handful of states ten years ago to now more than half, as well as t...

Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic...

In democratic societies, it is said that wars and military interventions are fought in the name of the citizens of the nation engaged in the con...

Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting...

George McGovern is chiefly remembered for his landslide loss to Richard Nixon in 1972. Yet at the time, his candidacy raised eyebrows by invoking t...

What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates on China, and in China''s Twentieth Ce...

Narratives based on conspiratorial and paranoid thinking have become increasingly prominent throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. From the pro...

Published since 1977 and updated every two years, the Almanac of Virginia Politics is the leading source of information on the legislative process...

This volume is an attempt to develop a more nuanced understanding of China's foreign, security and economic policies by bringing together perspecti...