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        The Handbook of Social Protection

        The Handbook of Social Protection

        The Handbook of Social Protection

        Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

        Edited by Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken

        ISBN: 9780262051408

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 10, 2026

        A much-needed guide exploring social protection on poverty, inequality, health, and government finance—from cash transfers to unemployment insurance—in low- and middle-income nations.
        Separation of Powers

        Separation of Powers

        Separation of Powers

        How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times

        by Cass R. Sunstein

        ISBN: 9780262051774

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 17, 2026

        Why the separation of powers is essential to liberty and democracy.
        The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer

        The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer

        The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer

        by Idris Robinson

        ISBN: 9781635902433

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: December 9, 2025

        A series of reflections surveying the events of an ailing country traversed by civil war on multiple fronts.
        On Liberalism

        On Liberalism

        On Liberalism

        In Defense of Freedom

        by Cass R. Sunstein

        ISBN: 9780262049771

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 2, 2025

        A much-needed defense of liberalism—what it is, why it is under threat, and why we need it more than ever—from one of our most important political thinkers today.
        The Second Bill of Rights

        The Second Bill of Rights, with a new preface by the author

        The Second Bill of Rights

        FDR’s Constitutional Vision and Why We Need It Today

        by Cass R. Sunstein

        ISBN: 9780262553841

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 19, 2025

        How our economic rights are fundamental to the security and stability of our democracy.

        From a prolific, insider author and leading legal scholar who has worked for former Presidents Obama and Biden.

        The Politics of Feeling

        The Politics of Feeling

        The Politics of Feeling

        Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism

        by Ben Anderson and Anna J. Secor

        ISBN: 9781915983299

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: July 1, 2025

        How today's dominant political forms—right-wing populism, progressivism, and liberalism—offer differentiated responses to shared conditions of uncertainty.
        Interception

        Interception

        Interception

        State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks

        by Bernard Keenan

        ISBN: 9780262552578

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 27, 2025

        A media history of how the UK and US governments have surveilled citizens by intercepting their private communications.
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        Good

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        Aesthetic Politics

        by Sean Cubitt

        ISBN: 9781915983305

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: May 27, 2025

        What is the good life—for me, for us, for the cosmos?
        The Smoke and the Spoils

        The Smoke and the Spoils

        The Smoke and the Spoils

        Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States

        by John Hultgren

        ISBN: 9780262552370

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 20, 2025

        The future of our environment lies in the hands of the working class, but what if the future of the working class also lies in environmental political struggles?
        The Shadow Gospel

        The Shadow Gospel

        The Shadow Gospel

        How Anti-liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics

        by Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway

        ISBN: 9780262552271

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 15, 2025

        A novel account of the culture wars and Evangelical influence in the United States that traces the 80-year rise of a quasi-religious anti-liberal demonology.
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