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What LA’s Antelope Valley Teaches Us about Fighting for Just Cities

May 13 2025
Today, there's a broad understanding that American cities are operating in unsustainable ways. How does this untenable model persist? As author Rahim Kurwa explains, it has to do with offloading crises to cities' peripheries.
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A Turning Point in Public Health

Dec 20 2024
In this time of rapid evolution, we offer a thoroughly updated and revised fourth edition of our book, "Public Health Law and Ethics: Power, Duty, Restraint" — defining the fields of public health law and ethics for a new generation.
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Prisons are Still Making COVID-19 Era Mistakes

Nov 07 2024
Unless considerable prisons reforms are made now—like an aggressive 50% reduction in prison population—the next epidemic will provoke calamities similar to COVID-19.
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Q&A with Benjamin Snyder, author of "Spy Plane"

Nov 01 2024
In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Spy Plane reveals what happened with this controversial policing experiment.
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Q&A with Nicole Bedera, author of On the Wrong Side

Aug 05 2024
The debate over campus sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices. On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetr
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