Most Read This Week In Social Issues

A social issue is a problem that influences a considerable number of the individuals within a society. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's social issue is the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally just personal life or societal order.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Social Issues"

The Lies They Told
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
That's What Friends Are For
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Girls We Sent Away
Poverty, by America
Consider Yourself Kissed
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
We Are Not Like Them
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Perfectly Nice Neighbors
Frank and Red
And Then, Boom!
On Witness and Respair
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
What Happens in the Dark
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Firestorm - The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster
Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion
One Bad Mother
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
The Displacements
One Word, Six Letters
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman
One of Our Kind
Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
The Glass House (Menzies Mental Health #1)
At Midnight Comes the Cry (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries Series, #10)
The Filling Station
Inbetweens: A Graphic Novel
Rough Sleepers
The Sister Effect
Groundskeeping
Southern Man (Penn Cage, #7)
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Outside
On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Not If You Break Up with Me First
What Strange Paradise
Scarlet Carnation (Freedman/Johnson, #4)
This Book Won't Burn
It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
What Happened to Rachel Riley?: An Award-Winning Contemporary Middle Grade Novel
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
The Vanishing of Margaret Small
The War on the West: An Instant NYT Bestselling History of the Modern World
You Were Always Mine
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
Attack of the Black Rectangles
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
The Probability of Everything
Carousel Summer
Sandy Hook
What's Mine and Yours
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
In the Family Way
How Girls Are Made
Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Dear Manny (Dear Martin, #3)
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
Bodies of Light
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
Those We Thought We Knew
Codebreaker
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
Small Town Sins
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories
Lazarus Man
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
The Man Who Lived Underground
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot
The Kindest Lie
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

Dimitri A. Bogazianos
Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.
Dimitri A. Bogazianos, 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs

Saou Ichikawa
According to The History of the Body, edited by Corbin, Courtine, and Vigarello, the "criminalization of the gaze" that took hold around the dawn of the twentieth century had led to the decline of the freak show, which was subsequently replaced in popularity by the Monsters of Hollywood. Now, with costumes serving as an ethical cushion, people could enjoy ogling deformity without guilt or reserve. ...more
Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

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