- If you want to read Project 2025 yourself click hereDirect link to the Project 2025 policy page.
Databases
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowReports written on varied social issues by experienced journalists, thoroughly footnoted and sourced to experts to ensure quality and accuracy of the information. Pro/con arguments included.
- Gale In Context: Global Issues This link opens in a new windowExplore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more. Includes global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more. Cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints database.
- Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new windowA resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more on hot social issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues database.
- Issues and Controversies (Facts on File) This link opens in a new windowExplores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. Pro/con topics. Unbiased information. Ideas for debate questions.
- Points of View Reference Source (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowCovers four hundred topics. Contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue, and provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
eBooks - off campus log in with LMC credentials
Banned Books by
Public and school libraries around the nation are experiencing efforts to ban books. Behind these efforts are parents and politicians who believe that hundreds of books and topics are not fit for young readers. Though this group is vocal, recent polls show that a majority of Americans oppose book bans. This book examines the types of books that are being challenged or banned--and why.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781678204754Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Today's Health Care Issues by
This book introduces significant U.S. health policy controversies, including Democratic and Republican responses to the coronavirus pandemic. It explores partisan divisions, major challenges, and policy preferences of Democratic and Republican stakeholders. It offers an overview of issues in contemporary health policy that span health care reform, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, public health, health care for underserved populations, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781440869167Publication Date: 2021-08-25
Broken Scales by
"This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781538138519Publication Date: 2021
Free the Press by
"Blending his experiences as a veteran reporter with trenchant analysis of the erosion of trust between the press and the government in the past 40 years, Free the Press gives readers a unique perspective on the challenges facing journalism, as well as the rise of hostility between these institutions"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781633887671Publication Date: 2021
Immigration Matters by
"Immigration Matters brings together key movement leaders and academics in the immigration space to share cutting-edge approaches to the question of America's borders--who should be allowed in, and who, if anyone, should be kept out. The book delves into topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers' rights, family re-unification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement. This collection makes accessible an immigration policy that both remediates the harm done to immigrant workers and communities under Trump and advances a bold new vision for the future"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781620976586Publication Date: 2021
Websites recommended by Dr. Tiffany Bohm (LMC instructor Poli Sci)
- Search the library for moreLink to the libraries catalog where you can find more books and eBooks on election topics.
Voter suppression
Books
Beyond Fake News by
"The world is swimming in misinformation. Conflicting messages bombard us every day with news on everything from politics and world events to investments and alternative health. The daily paper, nightly news, websites, and social media each compete for our attention and each often insist on a different version of the facts. Inevitably, we have questions: Who is telling the truth? How would we know? How did we get here? What can we do? Beyond Fake News answers these and other queries. It offers a technological and market-based explanation for how our informational environment became so polluted. It shows how purveyors of news often have incentives to mislead us, and how consumers of information often have incentives to be misled. And it chronicles how, as technology improves and the regulatory burdens drop, our information-scape becomes ever more littered with misinformation. Beyond Fake News argues that even when we really want the truth, our minds are built in such a way so as to be incapable of grasping many facts and blind spots mar our view of the world. But we can do better, both as individuals and as a society. As individuals, we can improve the accuracy of our understanding of the world by knowing who to trust and recognizing our limitations. And as a society, we can take important steps to reduce the quantity and effects of misinformation."-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 070.43 M1191ISBN: 9780367483104Publication Date: 2020-10-01
Defining Documents in American History: the American Economy by
Provides documents that discuss the political and social currents that have affected the nation's economy and have had an impact on the fortunes of individuals, businesses and corporations, banks and lending institutions, the stock market, and the federal government.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781642657562Publication Date: 2020-12-30
Health for Everyone by
"Health for Everyone is a guide to making our health care system more progressive and features contributions from clinicians, researchers, and advocates for those that are disadvantaged, overlooked, and historically oppressed within the US healthcare system"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 338.4736210 B4966ISBN: 9781538141854Publication Date: 2022-06-20
Immigration in the Court of Public Opinion by
What does a nation of immigrants think and feel about immigration? Recent accounts of immigration policy routinely cast Americans as divided into two warring camps – one fueled by threat to livelihoods and way of life, the other by a fervent cosmopolitanism that sees the nation-state as passé.
This counter-intuitive book shows that these accounts miss the mark. First, almost all Americans hold a mix of ""pro-"" and ""anti-immigrant"" opinions. Their views are pragmatic and flexible rather than dead-set. Second, opinions about immigration are more powerfully influenced by liberal values and concerns about the well-being of American society as a whole than by identity politics. Third, the assimilation Americans demand from immigrants matches patterns of integration that Hispanic and Asian immigrants overwhelmingly follow. Finally, American attitudes toward immigrants are ""exceptional"" for their openness and respect for cultural pluralism.
In Citrin, Levy, and Wright's view, long-elusive comprehensive immigration reform can win in the court of public opinion – but only if leaders heed their constituents rather than the polarized activists who claim to speak on their behalf. This expert analysis rethinks the role of public opinion in immigration matters: its insights will be welcomed by all interested in immigration debates and public policy.
Call Number: 325.73 C5814ISBN: 9781509550692Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Bloodbath Nation by
"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes out to more than one hundred Americans killed by bullets every day. On that same average day, another two hundred-plus are wounded by guns, which translates into eighty thousand a year. Eighty thousand wounded and forty thousand dead, or one hundred and twenty thousand ambulance calls and emergency room cases for every twelve-month tick of the clock, but the toll of gun violence goes far beyond the pierced and bloodied bodies of the victims themselves, spilling out into the devastations visited upon their immediate families, their extended families, their friends, their fellow workers, the people of their neighborhoods, their schools, their churches, their softball teams, and communities at large-the vast brigade of lives touched by the presence of a single person who lives or has lived among them-meaning that the number of Americans directly or indirectly marked by gun violence every year must be tallied in the millions"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 363.330973 A934ISBN: 9780802160454Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Guns in American Society by
This set is a reference resource for understanding the political, legal, and cultural factors surrounding gun rights and gun control in America, past and present. It draws on research in criminology, history, law, medicine, politics, and social science, and covers topics such as mass shootings, gun control and gun rights arguments, types of firearms, and public opinion.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781440867743Publication Date: 2022-12-01
Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis by
Germany, Australia's use of offshore detention centers, and the Trump administration's efforts to curb immigration.The book also investigates the profound impact that climate change will have on patterns of human migration in the coming years. Taken together, the chapters offer candid and compelling coverage of a dynamic subject that impacts millions of people worldwide. For readers wishing to delve even deeper into this multifaceted and often contentious subject, a comprehensive list of recommended resources serves as a gateway to further exploration"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 325.2 D5531ISBN: 9781440858444Publication Date: 2023-12-14
Not Too Late by
"Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it's an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, Not Too Late features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown. Shaped by the clear-eyed wisdom of editors Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and enhanced by illustrations by David Solnit, Not Too Late is a guide to take us from climate crisis to climate hope. Contributors include Julian Aguon, Jade Begay, adrienne maree brown, Edward Carr, Renato Redantor Constantino, Joelle Gergis, Jacquelyn Gill, Mary Annaise Heglar, Mary Ann Hitt, Roshi Joan Halifax, Nikayla Jefferson, Antonia Juhasz, Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, Fenton Lutunatabua & Joseph Sikulu, Yotam Marom, Denali Nalamalapu, Leah Stokes, Farhana Sultana, and Gloria Walton."--Publisher marketing.
Call Number: 333.72 S688ISBN: 9781642599442Publication Date: 2023-04-04
