A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached yet another turning point that will define the era ahead.Today, in the midst of a new economic cri...

An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the story of an embattled Democratic party during the Trump years, and its fractious attempt to regain the White House in 2020In You Are Right to Be Concerned, Edward-Isaac Dovere, staff wr...

A celebrated writer on food and sustainability offers fifty straightforward, impactful rules for climate-friendly living"Some strong and rational suggestions for reducing your personal impact here--and when you're eating smart, you'll have the energy...

From Mazie Hirono, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the U.S. Senate, the intimate and inspiring story of how a girl born in rural Japan went on to become "a hero on the left" (The Washington Post) - and of the mother w...

From the veteran New Yorker staff writer and award-winning author of The Experience of Place: an urgent, resounding call to protect half the Earth's land--and thereby millions of its species--by 2050, that gives us the tools to think big about the pl...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policyDorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she’d seen ho...

A magisterial portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, and a major reevaluation of the profound yet underappreciated impact the First Lady's political instincts had on LBJ’s presidency.“An inviting, challenging, well-told tale of the thoroughly mod...

In the tradition of Wendell Berry, a young writer wrestles with what we owe the places we’ve left behind.  In the tiny farm town of Emmett, Idaho, there are two kinds of people: those who leave and those who stay. Those who leave go i...

“The definitive account of America’s heroic but ultimately doomed effort in one of Afghanistan’s most rugged regions.”—Sebastian Junger, author of Tribe “A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error...

On growing up in the American South of the 1960s--an all-American white boy--son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-w...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags, the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State   In August 2012...