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NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What...

From healthcare to workplace conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. The most alarming consequence of ineffective policies, in addition to unrealized social goals, is the growing threat to the government’s democratic legitimacy. Understanding why government fails so often - and how it might become more effective - is an urgent responsibility of citizenship.

From a leading voice among young conservatives, an impassioned argument that to stay relevant the Republican Party must look beyond short-term electoral gains and re-commit to historic conservative values. In 1963 Richard Hofstadter published his landmark book Anti-Intellectualism in American...

"Major Oil Exporters Fail to Agree on Production Freeze" is from the April 17, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Stanley Reed and Andrew E. Kramer and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Voters can do nothing until they have the facts---the hard, cold, true facts, and that is what Hugh Hewitt provides in THE BRIEF AGAINST OBAMA: The Rise, Fall & Epic Fail of the Hope & Change Presidency. Hugh makes the case that Obama's has been a disastrous presidency, a fiasco in fact, and...

"What White America Fails to See" is from the July 08, 2016, Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Michael Eric Dyson and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

"Oil Prices Regain Deepest Losses after Deal to Freeze Production Fails" is from the April 18, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Prashant S. Rao and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Federal Reserve's Kashkari Says Banks 'Still Too Big to Fail'" is from the Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Binyamin Appelbaum and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"U.S. Says It'll Step up Defenses If China Fails to Act against North Korea" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Jane Perlez and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"GE Sheds Its 'Too Big to Fail' Label after Selling $200 Billion in Assets" is from the June 29, 2016, Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Michael J. De La Merced and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Spending Bill Fails as Republicans Oppose Gay Rights Provision" is from the May 26, 2016 Politics section of The New York Times. It was written by Emmarie Huetteman and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Living Wills' of 5 Banks Fail to Pass Muster" is from the April 13, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Eavis and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Why the IRS Fails to Crack the Small-Business Tax Nut" is from the June 15, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Stacy Cowley and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"North Korean Missile Tested Again but Fails, South Says" is from the October 16, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Fleet Cooper.