Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new audiobook, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the...
Political science
- Author:Sanders, BernieSummary:
- Author:Lee, Ann, Bremmer, IanSummary:
While America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate and a surge in government debt, China’s economy is the second largest in the world, and many predict it will surpass the United States’ by 2020....
- Author:Sinema, Kyrsten, Napolitano, JanetSummary:
Too many progressives are still using old-school divide-and-conquer tactics: demonize the other side, frighten the voters, scheme, and maneuver to try to win on your own terms.This approach hasn’t been particularly successful and has...
- Author:LUDLUM, RobertSummary:
Andrew Trevayne, a self-made millionaire at 30, was irreproachable in his government career. Now head of one of the biggest foundations in the U.S. he thought no-one could touch him - or could they?
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Major thinkers engage with King's less studied writing, arguing its marginalization has let King be drafted into projects he would not endorse.
- Author:DOBBS, MichaelSummary:
Francis Urquhart, ruthlessly expedient politician and newly appointed Prime Minister, engages in a battle of wills with the new King. Sequel to `House of cards'.
- Author:van Gelder, Sarah RuthSummary:
The Occupy Wall Street movement named the core issue of our time: the overwhelming power of Wall Street and large corporations— something the political establishment and most media have long ignored. But the movement goes far beyond...
- Author:Chayes, SarahSummary:
A former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how government's oldest problem is its greatest destabilizing force. Thieves of State argues that corruption is not just a nuisance; it is a major source of geopolitical...
- Author:Belz, MindySummary:
"Everywhere militants were blowing up Christians, their churches, their shops. They threatened them with kidnapping. They promised to take their children. The message to these 'infidels': You have no place in Iraq. Pay a...
- Author:George, NegusSummary:
One of Australia's most respected journalists turns his unflinching gaze to the big issues which affect us. George takes on climate change, poverty, war, politics and more.
- Author:Hartmann, ThomSummary:
Hartmann is perhaps best known for his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his steadfast opposition to the corporatization of America. But in these pages you’ll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures Hypothesis, which...
- Author:Martin MeredithSummary:
- Author:Edwards, BeatriceSummary:
In the United States today we have good reasons to be afraid. Our Bill of Rights is no more. It has been rendered pointless by heavy surveillance of average citizens, political persecution of dissenters, and the potential of indefinite...
- Author:Rodin, JudithSummary:
"Building resilience-the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively-is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain...
- Author:PlatoSummary:
"Behold! Human beings living in an underground den. Like ourselves, they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." With that statement, Plato--one of...
- Author:Adler, BillSummary:
"I want you to tell your children that when they hear all the talk and all the speculation and all the thousands of hours of so-called experts babbling away about this, that, or the other, that the true policy of this government is...
- Author:Saada, TassSummary:
What motivates Islamic terrorists' What is in the mind of terror' Our news reports from the Middle East cover events-bombings, massacres, and suicide attacks. Our newscasters take time to explain who the players are-from...
- Author:Webber, Jeffery R.Summary:
Throughout the 2000s Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today' What is their relationship to the explosive social movements that...
- Author:Appadurai, ArjunSummary:
We are living through a period of dramatic political change ' Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the...
- Author:Lowenthal, Mark M.Summary:
Intelligence is, by definition, a shadowy business. Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed and discussed, a trend which has inevitably prompted lively debate about intelligence gathering and analysis: what...