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Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway best seller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him? That question still plagues us. The Trump administration has proven as chaotic and destructive as its opponents feared, and the man at the center of it all remains a cipher.

The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination and the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Not all of them lived to tell the tale, of course, but those who emerged triumphant from jungle, desert, or polar wasteland were hailed as if returning from beyond the grave. Journalists vied for their stories and publishers rushed their firsthand accounts of exciting and dangerous journeys into print for a wide and voracious readership.

Insulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called "lazy," "feeble," "pusillanimous," and more. Our leaders have been derided as "ignoramuses," "idiots," "morons," and "fatheads," and have been compared to all manner of animals - worms and whales and hyenas, sad jellyfish, strutting crows, lap dogs, reptiles, and monkeys. Political insults tell us what we value in our leaders by showing how we devalue them. In Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels, linguist Edwin Battistella collects over 500 insults aimed at American presidents.

"American Home Birth Is Dangerous" is from the May 01, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Amy Tuteur and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Ryan’s Dangerous Silence" is from the December 06, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Frank Bruni and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"I Am a Dangerous Professor" is from the December 04, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by George Yancy and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

The high-achieving elder daughter of President-elect Donald J. Trump is, on the surface, a glowing picture of modern American womanhood: a mother of three young children who built a business that bears her name. A glamorous figure whom it would be easy to picture balancing a baby in one hand and a briefcase in the other, all in her own branded high heels.

"Ivanka Trump's Dangerous Fake Feminism" is from the January 13, 2017 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Jill Filipovic and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

Originalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation. Noted legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky gives a comprehensive analysis of the problems that make originalism unworkable as a method of constitutional interpretation. He argues that the framers themselves never intended constitutional interpretation to be inflexible and shows how it is often impossible to know the "original intent" of any provision.

In June 2024, after 14 years of house arrest and incarceration, Julian Assange, the Australian journalist the CIA had planned to kidnap or kill, was finally released from the UK's top security Belmarsh prison. Years of campaigning by his family and Australian politicians from across the political spectrum had finally paid off – Assange's plea bargain with the US Department of Justice produced the legal deal of the century. Instead of serving a possible 175-year jail sentence, Assange walked free...

A vast censorship regime has smothered America's digital marketplace of ideas, squelching free speech on vital policy issues. Its supporters regard its benefits as morally and politically beyond question. They contend it's carried out by private social media platforms, not governmental authorities. In Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom, Michael J. Glennon offers a timely and incisive response. The censors are short-sighted, he argues.

"Polio Response in Africa to Be Fast, Difficult and Possibly Dangerous" is from the August 12, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Donald G. Mcneil Jr. and narrated by Paul Ryden.

A line-up of the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are definitely not "making America great again" Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive...

President Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an "important" insider look at the tumultuous final days of the administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden (Sean Hannity). If...

"Obama Denounces Trump for His 'Dangerous' Mind-Set" is from the June 14, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"China's 'Dangerous Love' Campaign, Warning of Spies, Is Met with Shrugs" is from the April 21, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Didi Kirsten Tatlow and narrated by Caroline Miller.

As a young man, Vince Ellison began his career in the belly of the beast—as a prison guard working in the worst cellblock imaginable. And it was to his dismay and sadness that he has seen that same evil later in life. This time, not in the faces of incarcerated criminals, but rather in the eyes of the leaders of the Democratic party. In this persuasive work, Vince marshals his own experience and couples it with a learned and original analysis to conclude that the leaders of America's "progressive" party aren't just wrong on their policy stances—they are deliberately destructive.

"Trump Is 'Dangerous' for Global Stability, U.N. Rights Chief Says" is from the October 12, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Nick Cumming Bruce and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Can liberty survive in the hands of one all-powerful, unchallenged, and unelected bureaucrat? It wasn’t too long ago that the average American didn’t know who Anthony Fauci was. Now, after the coronavirus has spread nationwide, he’s arguably the most powerful bureaucrat in American history. But is it dangerous for a free society to concentrate so much power in the hands of an unelected official? Who or what holds Fauci accountable?

"Pro Boxers at the Olympics: An Opportunity, or a Dangerous Power Grab?" is from the August 15, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Ken Belson and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Lethal Buzzers: America's Most Dangerous Mosquitoes" is from the June 28, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Emily S. Rueb and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.