Authoritarian Nightmare John Dean and Bob Altemeyer A piercing look at how someone like Donald Trump and his followers achieved power—and what they might do to keep it. AVAILABLE 8/25/2020… Read more »

Last week, Alex Green of Publishers Weekly reported that the government shutdown was beginning to affect D.C. bookstores. While some are seeing an uptick in daytime traffic and there are discounts aplenty… Read more »

No point in mincing words: yesterday Borked sucked. On top of plenty of other awful news, Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court, ostensibly leaving Donald Trump to name a replacement —… Read more »

Melville House author, political science savant, and world’s most delightful rabble-rouser David Faris is a little busy this week, so today we thought we’d post a “hear me out” on… Read more »

“I think that there’s a moral reason to award statehood to DC and Puerto Rico, but there’s also a partisan reason — and that is that they would probably send four… Read more »

The results of the 2016 election hit me like a fusillade of misery-tipped Tic Tacs. At times, the pain was almost physical. It wasn’t just that so many millions of… Read more »

This week, as 2018 kicks into high gear, we’re offering previews of some upcoming books we’re excited about. The American electoral system is clearly failing — more horrifically in the 2016… Read more »