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Border walls, school bathrooms, student loans, gun control, diversity, abortion, climate change—today, nothing seems out of reach for the president's pen. But after all the press releases, ceremonies, and speeches, shockingly little gets done. The American presidency promises to solve America's problems, but presidents' unilateral solutions are often weak, even empty. Kenneth Lowande argues this is no accident.

A series of developments capped by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision have effectively crowned a bunch of billionaires and their operatives the new kings of politics. Big Money is a rollicking tour of a new political world dramatically reordered by ever-larger flows of cash. Ken Vogel has breezed into secret gatherings of big-spending Republicans and Democrats alike, from California poolsides to DC hotel bars, to brilliantly expose the way the mega-money men (and rather fewer women) are dominating the new political landscape.

Following an unprecedented, relentless four-year investigation, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered 36 boxes of evidence against then-President Bill Clinton to the House of Representatives on September 9, 1998. Dubbed “The Starr Report,” the documents alleged—in lurid detail—that Clinton lied under oath in a sworn deposition about his affair with an intern. This became the prime piece of evidence in the subsequent impeachment hearings.

It didn't begin with Donald Trump. Since the time of FDR, the Republican Party has been home to conspiracy thinking, including a belief that lost elections were rigged. And when Republicans later won the White House, the party elevated their presidents to heroic status—a predisposition that eventually posed a threat to democracy. John Kenneth White proposes to explain why this happened—not just the election of Trump, but the authoritarian shift in the party as a whole that led to the insurrection of January 6, 2021, and its aftermath.

"The Kenneth Bone Effect" is from the October 12, 2016 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Valeriya Safronova and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from 20 countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't.

"Kenneth Bae, Longest-Held U.S. Prisoner of North Korea, Reveals Details of Ordeal" is from the May 2, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Rick Gladstone and narrated by Caroline Miller.

American Political Parties is a core textbook on political parties in the United States that places the US party system into a framework designed around the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. White and Kerbel argue that the two-party system in the United States began with a common agreement on the key values of freedom, individual rights, and equality of opportunity, but that Hamilton and Jefferson disagreed—often vehemently—over how to translate these ideals into an acceptable form of governance.

"Florida Company Gets Approval to Put Robotic Lander on Moon" is from the August 03, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Behind a Shopping Center in New Jersey, Signs of a Mass Extinction" is from the Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"SpaceX Says It Plans to Send a Probe to Mars" is from the April 27, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"NASA Announces Extension of 9 Spacecraft Missions" is from the July 02, 2016 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Russian Spacecraft Carrying Supplies Burns up in Flight" is from the December 01, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Plans to Seek Earthlike Planet in a Nearby Star System" is from the October 11, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

"New Biggest Prime Number Equals 2 to the 74 Mil ... Uh, It's Big" is from the January 21, 2016 Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Venus: Inhospitable, and Perhaps Instructional" is from the October 17, 2016 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Billionaire Unveils Plan to Take Humans to Mars" is from the September 27, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"In Organic Foods Debate, More Answers, but Nothing Settled" is from the Health section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

In a few years, you could be eating the next generation of genetically altered foods — potatoes that do not turn brown or soybeans with a healthier mix of fatty acids.

And you may have no idea that something is different, because there may be no mention on the labeling even after a law passed by Congress last year to disclose genetically modified ingredients takes effect.

Washington’s current efforts to resolve the conflict in Syria will not break the stalemate. The only way to restore peace without committing U.S. troops is to build a new Syrian army capable of defeating both the Assad regime and the extremists.