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The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American...

From Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America. For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been thinking aloud about America in her much-loved Wall Street Journal column. In this new...

Human rights, equality, free speech, privacy, the rule of law. These five ideas are vitally important to the way of life we enjoy today. The battle to establish them in law was long and difficult, and Lord Anthony Lester was at the heart of the 30-year campaign that resulted in the Human Rights Act as well as the struggle for race and gender equality that culminated in the Equality Act of 2010. Today, however, our society is at risk of becoming less equal.

America's power is in decline, its foreign policy adrift, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past eight years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Daydream Believers combines in-depth reporting and analysis to explain how George W. Bush and his aides got so far off track - and why much of the nation followed.

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely discussed.

The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the...

"What Do Millennials Want? Hotels Have Some Ideas" is from the April 05, 2016 Travel section of The New York Times. It was written by Dinah Eng and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Crowdsourcing to Get Ideas, and Perhaps Save Money" is from the May 11, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Constance Gustke and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Help for a Business Idea Trying to Catch Fire" is from the October 12, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by John F. Wasik and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Toyota Asks for Ideas about How to Use an Ultrasmall Vehicle" is from the December 5, 2015 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Nick Czap and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"A Valentine’s Date Idea for Astronomy-Loving Early Birds" is from the Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Nicholas St. Fleur and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Donald Trump's Health Care Ideas Bewilder Republican Experts" is from the April 08, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Robert Pear, Maggie Haberman and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"From Fallen Presidential Candidates, Bold Money Ideas worth Another Look" is from the July 08, 2016, Financial section of The New York Times. It was written by Ron Lieber and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Trump's Idea to Cut National Debt: Get Creditors to Accept Less" is from the May 06, 2016, US section of The New York Times. It was written by Binyamin Appelbaum and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Immigration Reform: Disparate Ideas, Disparate Futures" is from the September 20, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Eduardo Porter and narrated by Caroline Miller.