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S. hrg volume 114-831
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In focus volume IF12484
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
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Report / 118th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 118-456
Report / 118th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 118-450
Report / 118th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 118-450
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[U.S. Government Publishing Office]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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The Epidavros Project
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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These films started with the kind of question you wonder about sometimes: what would it take for a great idea to become the law of the land? How would that story work? How does democracy work, in fact? HOW DEMOCRACY WORKS NOW looks into the black box between elections and legislation, and seeks to understand what sorts of collaborations and pathways were actually there. The idea we chose was immigration reform, and the tale we followed took us all...
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The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms...
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The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis.
"For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940-2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble." In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama,...
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During the five full years of his presidency (1964—1968), Lyndon Johnson initiated a breathtaking array of domestic policies and programs, including such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, the Immigration Reform Act, the Water Quality Act, the Voting Rights Act, Social Security reform, and Fair Housing. These and other "Great Society" programs reformed the federal government, reshaped intergovernmental...
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English
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When liberals don't have reason, authority, or the American people on their side, they turn to the one thing they never run out of: Pity.
For decades, conservatives have chafed at being called "heartless" and "uncaring" by liberals who maintain that our essential choice as a nation is between the politics of kindness and the politics of cruelty. In The Pity Party, political scientist William Voegeli turns the tables on this argument, making the case...
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From one of America's leading thinkers, a provocative diagnosis of the cause of America's decline-and a searing indictment of those who caused it. For nearly half a century, Americans have been bombarded by neoliberal propaganda promoting the lie that wages are objectively determined by impersonal labor markets. This falsehood has been repeated by academics, journalists, business leaders, and politicians so often that even many on the liberal left...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because his family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a...