Civics & Citizenship

From your friends at Pod Save America comes a useful guide to saving American democracy just in time for the 2024 election and 2025 insurrection....

A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians....

You can bring about positive, lasting change in the world, and you don’t have to be rich and famous or lead a big organization to do it....

From America’s favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.

First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change....

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century....

Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom....

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times....

A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can maintain power at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation’s democracy....

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism....

Written by political savant and entertainment veteran Ben Sheehan and vetted for accuracy by dozens of experts in the field of constitutional law, OMG WTF Does the Constitution Say? is an entertaining and accessible guide that explains what the Constitution lays out....

The movement that brought Donald Trump to the White House has better ideas than the old right or the new left. It's time that the rest of America started listening....

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.

From a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voices....

In Love Your Enemies, New York Times best-selling author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks shows that treating others with contempt and out-outraging the other side is not a formula for lasting success....

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States, that reminds us of fundamental American principles....

Michael J. Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well....

From politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your life with this indispensable guide from a persuasion expert....

A provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if American democracy is to survive, The Bill of Obligations is a bold call for change....

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history....

A Return to Common Sense is a concise, no-nonsense, dare we say fun, guide to how America works and a roadmap to reclaiming a government of, by, and for the people.

A captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact....

After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes....

The Founders' Speech to a Nation in Crisis is a tapestry of the Founders' own words, written in 10 chapters and woven into a single, powerful speech and call to action for every American....

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....

We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. In recent decades, the numbers have skyrocketed, thanks to people coming from many continents—especially Asia, Africa, and South America. Just like their predecessors, they face countless obstacles, including political hatred. And yet, just like their predecessors, they work hard. They persist. And they become us. Veteran journalist, broadcaster, and interviewer Ray Suarez has crisscrossed the country to speak to new Americans from all corners of the globe, and to record their stories.

This is an introduction to city planning for the non-professional who wants to understand the content of city plans and the processes involved in city planning. It describes the basic elements of a city plan, and the types of policy statements they contain, and includes guidelines for establishing a citizens advisory committee to work with the staff to prepare a city plan.

A Peace Deal is coming in Ukraine. And a big price tag is coming with it. In this book, we look behind the scene at a Peace Deal being negotiated right now in October of 2022, along with the sticker shock price tag that is going to be the price for peace.

Almost 250 years ago, our Founders thought We the People were the solution. Today, it looks like we have become the problem. What happened, and what can We the People do about it? Every day, the news delivers the same story: as a nation, we are so divided, we spend more time picking fights than solving our most urgent problems. It's exhausting and exasperating. In Remaking the Space Between Us, Smith invites us to see what lies behind this story: a growing trend in which more and more of us are seeking refuge in like-minded groups while distancing from groups different from our own.

Wilkins decided to make a congressional run when the elected official in his district reneged on his commitment not to seek re-election after five terms. Wilkins asserts that term limits would encourage greater involvement in the political process. He hopes this book will encourage citizens to retrieve the reins of power from the hands of career politicians and restore it to the American people—where it has always belonged.

Twenty-four decades ago Thomas Paine’s Common Sense proposed a bold solution to colonists struggling with an uneasy relation with Great Britain: independence, and he offered simple arguments and clear thinking. Today the United States faces the dangers of violence and terrorism and political dysfunction which seems to defy solution. Common Sense II is a nonpartisan reassessment by an independent thinker. The author argues that terrorism is too big of a problem for police and government and the military to handle, but that it is a problem for citizens, and he argues that the relation of ...

This book outlines the problems with our democracy. It shows how to fix them.

"Trust Shattered: Cases of Government Betrayal" is a meticulously researched, compelling narrative that unravels the complex tapestry of government actions and their profound impact on individual rights and societal trust. Spanning three distinct parts - Betrayed Bodies, Betrayed Liberty, and Betrayed Estates - this book delves into historical and contemporary instances where government intervention has overstepped, leading to significant ramifications on life, liberty, and property.

For anyone preparing for the USCIS Civics Test, "The Concise US Citizenship Test Study Guide Authorized for 2024-2025" is a crucial resource. This thorough reference, which offers succinct, understandable explanations of American history, politics, and civic values, is designed to assist applicants in navigating the challenging process of applying to become citizens of the United States.

A brief history of the Americanization movement in the United States. J. M. Beach is a lecturer at the University of Texas, San Antonio. He has advanced degrees in English, History, Philosophy, and Education. He has been a teacher and educational administrator for over fifteen years. Beach has taught many subjects in the Humanities to a broad range of students, from pre-school all the way to university, in public and private schools, in the U.S., South Korea, and China. Previously Beach was a Lecturer at Oregon State University, the University of California, Jinan University in Guangzhou, ...

*** Also listen to podcasts based on the book *** This remarkable book is an unblinking look at the problems of our current democracy and, more importantly, a road map to get ourselves back on course. It calls our politicians to task and identifies the many places where changes to our government systems will put control back in the hands of “We, the People”. Through an extensive critique of the status quo, we come to realize just how much, regardless of our political philosophy, all of us absolutely agree upon. Topics include electoral representation, taxation, special interest groups, ...

This is the story of a local government manager who got hired by a small mountain town in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in his first city manager job. The job got complicated from the first day and developed into more and more complexity.

As citizens of two kingdoms, Christians face the unique challenge of determining where their allegiance should lie. Do believers pledge allegiance to one nation or to one God above all nations? The Church finds itself in a similar crisis. Is the mission of the Church to reform politics or to redeem people? In this book covering Romans 13:1-7, Stephen clarifies the believer's responsibility as a dual-citizen of heaven and earth. He also examines the difficult relationship between Church and State, encouraging the Church to focus more on saving Americans than saving America.

Why do Democrats fail to win voters to their side, and what can they do to develop new winning political strategies—especially as the very fate of democracy hangs in the balance in 2024? Too often the carefully constructed, rational arguments of the Left meet a grisly fate at the polls, where voters are instead swayed by Republican candidates hawking anger, fear, and resentment. Only when Democrats are handed an overwhelming motivational issue—like the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade—have they found a way to counter this effect.

Out of a desperate search for career and battles with cultural angst during the right-wing regime of 2001-2007, Walton Stowell joined the US Military. Architect turned basic-enlisted-grunt went from a spiritual environmental quest, to a more aggressive head-on confrontation with the Global War on Terror. He sacrificed his pagan mohawk and dreadlocks to the gods, and vowed to seek out supporters of War and challenge them to rethink their arrogance. To do so he would summon the emotions of death by violence, and communicate what the historic results of such cycles are. Whether or not he ...