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  • The Echo Machine

    How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America

    by David Pakman ...
    From the host of The David Pakman Show comes a vital look at how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracyKnown for providing incisive progressive political analysis without being dogmatic, popular radio and podcast host David Pakman delves into the vicious cycle of reactionary political ideology ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Why Nothing Works

    Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back

    by Marc J. Dunkelman ...
    A provocative exploration about the architecture of power, the forces that stifle us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in democratically elected government.America was once a country that did big things—we built the world’s greatest rail network, a vast electrical grid, interstate highways, abundant housing, the Social Security system, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Conspiracy to End America

    Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

    by Stuart Stevens ...
    “This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nicolle WallaceFormer chief Republican strategist, Lincoln Project adviser, and bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an ominous warning that the GOP is dragging our country toward autocracy—and if we don’t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well be our last free and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century

    by Ronald Gruner ...
    Imagine a non-partisan presidential history spanning Warren G. Harding to Donald Trump that never mentions Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative.Rather than politics, WE THE PRESIDENTS focuses on the issues which affect Americans today. Soaring inflation, resurgent nativism, income inequality, budget deficits, the Ukraine crisis and other critical issues, all have their roots in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Demodiversity

    Toward Post-Abyssal Democracies

    Edited by Boaventura Santos, José Mendes ...
    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world. This book presents the democratic practices, spaces and processes that engage directly with the theoretical assumptions advanced by the epistemologies of the South, summoning other contexts and empirical realities that attest to the possibility of a renewal and deepening of democracy ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Gardens of Democracy

    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them

    by G. Elliott Morris ...
    An insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy.Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • In the Long Run We Are All Dead

    Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution

    by Geoff Mann ...
    A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crisesIn the ruins of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamored to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state, free-market liberalization and deregulation. Keynesian political economy, in contrast, could put the state ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A People's History of the United States

    by Howard Zinn ...
    THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools—with its ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • The People, No

    A Brief History of Anti-Populism

    by Thomas Frank ...
    A “brilliantly written, eye-opening” look at how elites distort the meaning of populism by the bestselling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? (The Washington Post).Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Winter War

    Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal

    by Eric Rauchway ...
    The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history -- and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatismAs historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War, FDR laid out coherent, far-ranging plans for the New Deal in the months prior to his inauguration. Meanwhile, still-President Hoover, worried about FDR's abilities and afraid of the president-elect's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Unmaking of Israel

    by Gershom Gorenberg ...
    “Closely argued and conditionally apocalyptic . . . Gorenberg outlines many reasonable steps Israel should take to disentangle religion from the state.” —Jeffrey Goldberg, The New York Times Book ReviewProminent Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg offers a penetrating and provocative look at how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism, threatening the prospects for peace and ... Read more

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  • La malamiko de Putin. Aleksej Navalnij kaj liaj apogantoj. (Esperanto)

    by Kalle Kniivilä ...
    La 20-an de aŭgusto Aleksej Navalnij devis morti. Tion rakontas unu el la murdistoj, kiam Navalnij mem telefonas al li post kelkaj monatoj. ”Malfeliĉaj” cirkonstancoj kaŭzis, ke la nervoveneno metita en la blua boksista kalsono de Navalnij ne havis tempon efiki. La aviadilo urĝe surteriĝis kaj la ambulanc-kuracistoj savis lian vivon.La provo de la sekurservo malaperigi Navalnij montras, ke li ... Read more

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  • The Doctor and the Saint

    Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste: The Debate Between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    The little-known story of Gandhi’s reluctance to challenge the caste system, and the man who fought fiercely for India’s downtrodden.Democracy hasn’t eradicated caste, argues bestselling author and Booker Prize–winner Arundhati Roy—it has entrenched and modernized it. To understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ultimately became: ... Read more

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  • Our Biggest Fight

    Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age

    by Frank H. McCourt Jr. ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet—before it’s too late.“In the spirit of Thomas Paine’s Revolution-era Common Sense, this manifesto challenges us to create new digital architectures to safeguard democracy.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The U.S. Constitution

    Anti-Federalist Edition

    by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton ...
    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, and worthy of study. In formation though, the path to adoption was not without dissent: the Anti-Federalist movement was against the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and vocally opposed the ratification of the Constitution, because the Articles of Confederation originally gave state governments ... Read more

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  • Die RAF-Stasi-Connection

    by Andreas Kanonenberg, Michael Müller ...
    Als im Juni 1990 zehn der meistgesuchten RAF-Terroristen in der damaligen DDR festgenommen wurden, war die Öffentlichkeit entsetzt: Das Stasi-Regime hatte westdeutschen Terroristen Unterschlupf gewährt, die seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt von einem hochgerüsteten Fahndungsapparat vergeblich gesucht worden waren.Doch die hiesigen Ermittlungsbehörden können von dem «Fahndungserfolg» keineswegs so ... Read more

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  • Mexico: Democracy Interrupted

    by Ms. Jo Tuckman ...
    In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover—after 71 years of PRI dominance—was hailed as the beginning of a new era of hope for Mexico. Yet the promises of the PAN victory were not consolidated. In this vivid account of Mexico's recent history, a journalist with ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Second

    Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

    by Carol Anderson ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception**.**In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution 1880-1938

    by Massimo Salvadori ...
    This first modern study provides an original and balanced perspective of a theorist whom Lenin referred to as both ‘master of Marxism’ and ‘renegade’. Examining Kautsky’s political thought over a period stretching from the Paris Commune to the Second World War, the author argues for the consistency with which Kautsky developed his positions on socialism, democracy, political parties and the role ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Death of Expertise

    The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

    by Tom Nichols ...
    Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe ... Read more

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  • Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

    by Ruth Ben-Ghiat ...
    **New York Times BestsellerWhat modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped).**Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin—enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Top-Down Democracy in South Korea

    by Erik Mobrand, Clark W. Sorensen ...
    Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
    While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik Mobrand documents another part – the elite-led design and management of electoral and party institutions. Even as the country left ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

    by Eddie Glaude Jr. ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and assume responsibility for what it takes to achieve a more just and perfect democracy.“Like attending a jazz concert with all of one’s favorite musicians…James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., ... Read more

    $17.99 USD