A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. “A tour de force ... Read it no...

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The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power, about how U.S. police unions built themselves into a formidable political force, and whether the movement is more fragile than it appears.

An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, about how U.S. police unions built themselves into a formidable political force, and whether the movement is more fragile than it appears.

Stuart Schrader’s ‘Blue Power’ illuminates the history of how police unions coalesced as tools for guaranteeing preferential treatment and protection from accountability.

Recent calls for mandatory retirement in academia are a reminder that class and other social hierarchies are something like mountains with increasingly dense fog toward their peaks: the higher up one…

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 189 Michael E. Neagle, Chasing Bandits: America’s Long War on Terror. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. ISBN…