Queen Elizabeth

It is with great anticipation that we turn to Warren’s autobiographical narrative for clues as to how someone growing up in crimson red Oklahoma, who considered herself a Republican into the 1990s, came to be a boldly progressive Democrat.

Let It Bee

No one will starve to death if honeybees disappea. But our food choices will be severely limited.

Robert’s Rules

Despite this book's overarching narratives of racial uplift via education, there is a suggestion that Peace’s narrative could be that of any other young person who came of age when optimism and free spirited partying without consequences gave way to recessions, terrorism, and a new era of anxiety.

Language By Law

With 2010's Plain Writing Act, the U.S. government launched an official war against the "gobbledygook" and bureaucratize it helped create.

Desalination Complication

Why desalination is not as simple as filtering seawater.

Breaking the Code

Haney López constructs a history of “strategic racism,” whereby politicians, regardless of personal attitudes about race, exploit (on the right) or accommodate (on the left) these attitudes. The result, in his view, has been an exacerbation of racial stereotypes, fears, and distortions regarding public discourse and policy.

The Deliberate Knot

Shuler wrote Thirteenth Turn, he tells us, to reveal the “still underdiscussed narrative of violence in American history,” which “includes both a kind of legal ‘justice,’ the death penalty, meted out by the state—with all the biases that kind of justice entails—as well as another, extralegal ‘justice,’ the democracy of the mob.”

Friendly Eyes

How the hormone of Oxytocin bonds us to man's best friend.

Faking It

The difference between the authentic and the fabricated is not always so clear.

What Is “Natural”?

We no longer need the term “natural,” but we do need products that are safe, well-researched, and sustainable.

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