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The American dream of equal opportunity is in peril. America's economic inequality is shocking, poverty threatens to become a heritable condition, and our healthcare system is crumbling despite ever increasing costs. In this thought-provoking book, Edward D. Kleinbard demonstrates how the failure to acknowledge the force of brute luck in our material lives exacerbates these crises leading to warped policy choices that impede genuine equality of opportunity for many Americans.

Good Night and Good Luck is a podcast developed by the students’ newsroom of the Television and Culture course at Università Bocconi. The program will follow the development of the US Elections as it happens and its consequences. After a first season focused on the 2020 race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the program returns for a second season - 4 years later - for the 2024 matchup between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

2021 Prose Award Finalist A long-overdue and sober examination of President Ronald Reagan’s racist politics that continue to harm communities today and helped shape the modern conservative movement. Ronald Reagan is hailed as a transformative president and an American icon, but within his...