These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The Historical winners of the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

The all-out assault on Black voting

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The use of the autopen, a device that reproduces signatures and is ubiquitous in government and business, is ordinarily uncontroversial. There is no power to undo a pardon in the Constitution or case ...

Beware the “ketamine-fueled jester.”

The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee told G.O.P. lawmakers that public confrontations with angry constituents could hurt them politically in the midterm elections.

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, according to the American Library Association. Challenges lead to censorship.

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Democrats have one simple message to deliver: Republicans are responsible for everything that happens from now on. All the unintended consequences, government shutdowns and colossal failures are 10…

The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

The public broadcaster is also facing an investigation by the FCC and potential threats to its funding.

Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a business gathering on Friday that US President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Canada “is a real thing,” two Canadian business leaders who were at the meet...

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

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There are two major problems with Trump’s order, water experts said: The water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.

A top Treasury career staffer, David A. Lebryk, announced his retirement. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.