New for Politics

Governors Highway Safety Association.
Available online.
State-by-state compilation of statutes in effect, or soon to take effect, in the U.S.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

St. Petersburg Times / Congressional Quarterly.
Available online.
A non-partisan truth-checking effort, "a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day reporters and researchers from the Times and CQ will analyze the candidates' speeches, TV ads and interviews and determine whether the claims are accurate." 
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

U.S. State Department.
Available online.
This latest entry in the authoritative Foreign Relations of the United States document series will not appear in paper form -- only in this electronic "volume." It "presents the record of U.S. policies towards multilateral arms control and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons during President Richard Nixon’s first administration."
Links will be maintained in several locations on our library Web site, including here.

Nuclear Threat Inititative.
Available online.   Printed copy to be added to the library collection.
"Nuclear terrorism remains a real and urgent danger. Terrorists are actively seeking nuclear weapons and the materials to make them... This report provides an analysis of risks, an assessment of progress in key programs to address those risks, and a series of targeted recommendations to strengthen and accelerate these efforts."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Macmillan / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   W&L subscription.
Four-volume set (2007) contains hundreds of signed articles, encompassing the various concepts of sex and gender that have arisen from the critical study of those subjects worldwide.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

American Antiquarian Society / Tufts University.
Available online.
Very diverse and wide-ranging collection of voting data, covering offices from the Federal to the local levels, from presidential elections to town clerk voting.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Pew Research Center.
Available online.
Unusually large international public opinion survey (45,000 people in 47 countries) finds that people "are concerned about inequality, threats to their culture, threats to the environment and threats posed by immigration."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Available online.
"Provides a detailed analysis of a recent poll of Iraqi public opinion on the war, sectarian cleansing, the Iraqi government, US forces and the surge, and many of the other issues that show the state of Iraq hearts and minds. It also shows the differences in such public opinion by sect, ethnicity, governorate, and major city..."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.