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8 Books for Confronting the Criminal Injustice System: A Just Mercy-Inspired Reading List
The Oscars are this weekend. While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates the year in motion pictures we thought we would celebrate one of our favorite films ...
Everything and Nothing Has Changed. Ten Years after The New Jim Crow Was First published.
In January 2020 we published the tenth anniversary edition of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This landmark book argues that the racial ...
We Own the Future: A Democratic Socialist Reading List
This new decade opens on a deeply turbulent time in history; with the 2020 US presidential election looming nearer, we are faced with ballooning debt, insecure job, healthcare, education, and ...
Holiday Reading List
The holiday season is book season. Maybe it is the winter weather, but the holidays are a good time to get cozy and read. With that endeavor in mind, we’re ...
THE NEW PRESS GIFT GUIDE
This holiday season, spread the gift of political education and consciousness-raising with our best-selling titles on education, racial justice, incarceration, labor, immigration, political science, and more- as well as our ...
VIDEO: The New Wave of Candidates Knocking At Democracy's Door
The system is rigged: America’s government remains overwhelmingly white, male, and wealthy. Even though our democracy should represent all communities; people like us -- immigrants, people of color, women, LGBTQ+ ...
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Mike German
Next month, The New Press is pleased to publish Mike German’s Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy, an engaging and unsettling contemporary history of the FBI ...
Vote for our DVF Award Nominee Susan Burton
Becoming Ms. Burton author Susan Burton is in the running for a DVF Diane Von Furstenberg People's Voice Award! This is a prestigious award that would provide her organization A New Way ...
Rape: It's a Man Thing
March is Women's History Month. Here to kick things off is Sohaila Abdulali, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2018, ...




