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Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent's ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life. In dialogue with three collaborators from different generations, Broadbent leads listeners through a life spent fighting for equality in Parliament and beyond: exploring the formation of his social democratic ideals, his engagement on the international stage, and his relationships with historical figures from Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro to Tommy Douglas, Rene Levesque, and Willy Brandt.

In 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also 15, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation, providing daily debates - and cruel, dinner table entertainment. Now, 40 years after Michael Skakel's conviction, his cousin, acclaimed activist and writer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has taken matters into his own hands to get the charges dropped and clear his cousin's name.

In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory - the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose practices, high wages, and regulated capital produced both robust economic growth and greater income equality.

The fallout from the Great Recession led to the hyperpolarized society of the years that followed, when populists ran amok on both the left and the right and Americans divided into two distinct tribes. A Decade of Disruption is a timely reexamination of the recent past that reveals how we’ve arrived at our current era of cultural division.

Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in United States history, from the government's 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the 2014 death of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the initial Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. The playbook hasn't changed since 1979, when Dr. Baden was demoted from his job as New York City's Chief Medical Examiner after ruling that the death of a Black man in police custody was a homicide.

"Labour Party in Britain Faces Its Worst Crisis in Decades" is from the July 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Stephen Castle and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Most Powerful Earthquake in Decades Leaves Ecuador Shaken" is from the April 18, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Maggy Ayala and Nicholas Casey and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"South Koreans Rally in Largest Protest in Decades to Demand President's Ouster" is from the November 12, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Job Growth in Past Decade Was in Temp and Contract" is from the March 30, 2016, The Upshot section of The New York Times. It was written by Neil Irwin and narrated by Kristi Burns.

The president-elect’s favorable comments about President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the conclusion of U.S. intelligence officials that Moscow acted to help Trump’s campaign have focused attention on Trump’s business interests in Russia.

"Silenced for Decades, ‘Victims of Despotism’ Air Torture Claims in Tunisia" is from the November 19, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Carlotta Gall and narrated by Paul Ryden.