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Glass has reported extensively from the Middle East and travelled frequently in Syria over several decades. Here he melds together reportage, analysis, and history to provide an accessible overview of the origins and permutations defining the conflict, situating it clearly in the overall crisis of the region. His voice, elegant and concise, humane and richly informed, is a vital antidote to the sloganizing that shapes so much commentary and policy concerning the civil war.

Fully updated chapters continue to address how 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. Over the past several years, the rise of populism and conspiracy theories have taken this to new levels. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.

As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of President John F. Kennedy's death, including the days immediately preceding and following the assassination.

Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of fifteen detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore's 234 murders that year. Simon takes listeners inside the detectives' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape...

In 12 years, Michelle Lyons witnessed nearly 300 executions. First as a reporter and then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville's Walls Unit, where she recorded and relayed the final moments of death row inmates' lives before they were put to death by the state. Michelle was in the death chamber as some of the United States' most notorious criminals, including serial killers, child murderers and rapists, spoke their last words on earth, while a cocktail of lethal drugs surged through their veins.

Where do journalists find the guts to keep telling the truth in places where truth-telling will get them murdered? Organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters sans frontières bring us the death toll from around the world, and that number is truly daunting: since 1992 more than 730 journalists have been killed - nearly three-quarters of them targeted and murdered. Over 85% of the fallen have been local journalists trying to unveil violence and corruption in their own back yards. Worse, 95% of the people who ordered their murder remain unpunished.

"The Death of Liberalism" is from the April 13, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Roger Cohen and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Packed with fun facts and presidential trivia, The President Is Dead! tells you everything you could possibly want to know about how our presidents, from George Washington to George H. W. Bush (who was the most recent president to die), met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives, including stories of attempted grave robbings, reinterments, vandalism, conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths, and much more.

"Death by Medical Error: Adding Context to Scary Headlines" is from the August 15, 2016 The Upshot section of The New York Times. It was written by Aaron E. Carroll and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Deaths in the Line of Duty" is from the July 28, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Niraj Chokshi and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Death Leaves Power Vacuum in India" is from the December 5, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ellen Barry and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Death Shatters a Celebration in France" is from the July 15, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alissa J. Rubin, Adam Nossiter, and Christopher Mele and narrated by Caroline Miller.

After the bullet shells get counted, the blood dries and the votive candles burn out, people peer down from housing-project windows and see crime scenes gone cold: a band of yellow police tape blowing in the breeze.

"Death, Mistrust and Too Few Officers" is from the December 30, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Benjamin Mueller and Al Baker and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The inside story of Donald Trump’s first two years in Washington as viewed from Capitol Hill, a startling account that turns “Congress into a Game of Thrones book” (Trevor Noah, The Daily Show). Taking readers into secret strategy calls and closed-door...

From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at...

"Deaths, Fraud Allegations and an Inquiry into a Long Island VA Hospital" is from the September 20, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Kristina Rebelo and Marc Santora and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Death Wish Coffee Might Need Caffeine After Super Bowl" is from the Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Jesse Mckinley and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Rafsanjani, a former president who helped found the Islamic republic, had been the one man too large to be sidelined by conservative hard-liners. Now he was suddenly gone, dead from what state media described as cardiac arrest — and with no one influential enough to fill his shoes.

For decades, government pundits have dismissed these "coincidental" deaths, even regarding them as "myths" as "urban legends." Like most people, Richard and David were initially unsure about what to make of these 'coincidences'. After all, events don't "consult the odds" prior to happening; they simply happen. Then someone comes along later and figures out what the odds of it happening were. Some of the deaths seemed purely coincidental; heart attacks, hunting accidents.

"Louisiana Floods Lead to 6 Deaths" is from the August 15, 2016, US section of The New York Times. It was written by Christine Hauser and narrated by Kristi Burns.