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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan - a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.

Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good for you? Do we divide into number and word players? And could Scrabble have been invented in any other language?

In 2007, two CIA spooks meet with an American colonel in military intelligence. The war is going badly, and President Bush, who steadfastly refuses to back down, remains unchallenged at home as Democrats and Republicans focus on the 2008 elections. Meanwhile, Iran's pursuit of nuclear energy will yield enriched uranium by 2012 - uranium that could be used to manufacture suitcase nukes. The US military is too drained to invade Iran, and a preemptive strike is out of the question.

The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades—despite never achieving the far-reaching aims of its proponents—and how it’s finally time to forge a new path forward. Since the end of World War II, the United States...

The "gripping and inspiring" true story (Washington Examiner) of how Congressman Steve Scalise survived a political mass shooting and returned to Congress with the help of his friends, family, and faith. On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field for the annual Congressional Baseball...

The candid, behind-the-scenes memoir of the of the Senate Majority Leader and GOP veteran. In October 1984, a hard-charging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for President Ronald Reagan to arrive at a presidential rally in Louisville. In the midst of a tough Senate campaign against an...

Sinn Féin is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A movement once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely democratic means. But if Sinn Féin has mastered the art of electoral politics, it remains strangely opaque. Who really runs the party? How is it funded? And what can we expect of it as a party of government? Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year in 2021, explores these and other burning questions in The Long Game.

The United States is in the midst of a new cold war with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and America is losing. That claim, at the core of Countering China's Great Game challenges the Washington, D.C. conventional wisdom about U.S.-China relations. Officials in Washington are reacting to the CCP and playing defense. Like America's efforts to contain the Soviet Union in the twentieth-century Cold War, the United States needs a strategic vision to overcome the CCP. Sobolik offers a plan for American victory over the CCP and presents a roadmap to sabotage the crux of the CCP's foreign policy.

McInerney and Vallely, retired U.S. Generals, are now military analysts for FOX News. In Endgame, they direct their experience and expertise to the question of how to win the war on terror. Unlike past enemies, radical Islam is not confined to particular nationsm - and thus cannot be defeated solely through conventional warfare against enemy states.

" A Game Changed History, but It's Hardly Been Seen Since" is from the March 27, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Richard Sandomir and narrated by Caroline Miller.

Most fans develop a bond with a team as children. For reasons that may go unquestioned, they stick with it, no matter the emotional toll. In the view of the New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell, our connection to sports is ultimately tied to caring: “deeply and passionately, really caring — which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives,” he wrote in 1975.

"Game Over: These Guys Are No Longer Big Sports Fans" is from the January 12, 2017 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Sridhar Pappu and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Dozens of Olympians Could Be Barred From Rio Games" is from the May 17, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Rebecca R. Ruiz and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Needing Boost, WNBA Hires a Leader Who Follows the Game" is from the Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Richard Sandomir and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Players Again Join Anthem Protest before a Playoff Game" is from the September 25, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Seth Berkman and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"U.S. Dominates Serbia in Gold Medal Basketball Game" is from the August 21, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Karen Crouse and Doug Mills and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Chinese Group to Pay $4.4 Billion for Caesars' Mobile Games" is from the July 31, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Paul Mozur and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"The Lying Game" is from the September 22, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Paul Krugman and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Mets Manager Hospitalized before Sunday's Game" is from the June 12, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Pat Borzi and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Sharapova Planning a New Game" is from the March 09, 2016, Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Christopher Clarey and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"23 More Athletes Suspected of Doping Could Be Kept from Rio Games" is from the May 27, 2016, Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Rebecca R. Ruiz and narrated by Corey M. Snow.