As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower...

"They Hanged My Saintly Billy" von Catherine Pelonero ist eine detaillierte Darstellung der berüchtigten Mordfälle, die den viktorianischen Londoner Stadtteil Whitechapel erschütterten. Das Buch konzentriert sich auf William "Billy"...

"The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power" von As'Ad Abukhalil ist eine kritische Analyse der politischen und sozialen Dynamiken innerhalb Saudi-Arabiens. Abukhalil untersucht die komplexen Beziehungen...

"Nonconformity: Writing on Writing" von Daniel Simon ist eine Sammlung von Essays und Gedanken des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Nelson Algren über das Schreiben und die kreative Freiheit. Obwohl Algren vor allem für seine Romane...

The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative...

Real Estate Billionaire. Reality TV star. President? Donald Trump inherited a fortune from his father. But he wanted more. Shrewd and indefatigable, he never missed an opportunity to expand his holdings. He transformed himself into an...

Here are Teddy Goldenberg’s dense, murky treatment of Dashiell Hammett’s “The Road Home,” often considered the first hard-boiled detective story ever published. Shawn Cheng renders the first serial-killer story, the so-called fairy tale...

The Graphic Canon, Volume 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists—including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly—present their versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s visions. The great American...

Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid"...

Four generations of Americans have come to associate Ralph Nader with the political issues that have defined our age, be it car safety in the 1960s or the anti-WTO demonstrations that recently shut down Seattle. His work has successfully...