Democracy

The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by the Supreme Court in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally made good on the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment, which nearly a century before...

From the leading political advisor and bestselling author, a revelatory account of how power is built and a blueprint for Democrats in 2026 and beyond. Supermajorities used to be the norm in American politics, yet today it seems unimaginable that our nation could break hard for one party or the...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir. This program is read by the author. Francis Fukuyama, a leading public...

“Bracing; Jones presents a vision of America as “fallen into... apostasy.” But he remains hopeful, noting that 'backsliding is not irreversible,' as 'repentance is possible...with confession' and the 'acknowledging of difficult truths.' It’s a potent reckoning."—Publishers Weekly From...

'It is extraordinary how little proper journalistic scrutiny Farage has received. This book is timely and essential reading from a veteran reporter and troublemaker' Carole Cadwalladr, investigative journalist and co-founder of The Nerve 'An encyclopedic account of Nigel Farage's singular...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if political power were not born from blood, conquest, or divine command—but from the consent of free people? In *Two Treatises of Government*, John Locke gives one of the defining arguments of modern political philosophy. Written in the...

A chilling and urgently needed exposé on the forces pushing American politics and religion toward a post-constitutional autocracy This program is read by the author. From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural pulpits, from Catholic monasteries to Beltway think tanks and Project 2025, a convergence...

The speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the role that slavery played in America's founding. In Frederick Douglass's American Founding, Dennis Rasmussen traces the great abolitionist's intellectual journey from denouncing the founders as hypocrites and the Constitution as evil to embracing them both.

Draw the Line in Ohio by legal analyst Rory Riley Topping and Washington correspondent Josh Rultenberg offers a grounded, firsthand overview of unfair redistricting through the story of Ohio’s recent gerrymandering fight.

As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry.