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In his new book, Pay Up!, John L. Campbell shows that while these claims are highly influential, they are also wrong. Using historical and cross-national evidence, the book challenges and refutes every justification conservatives have made for tax cuts—that American taxes are too high; they hurt the economy; they facilitate government waste; they constitute an unfair downward redistribution of income; and they threaten individual freedom—and conversely shows that countries can actually benefit from higher taxes, especially when tax increases fall most heavily on those most able to pay them.

As American politics descends into a battle of anger and hostility between two groups called "left" and "right," people increasingly ask: What is the essential difference between these two ideological groups? In The Myth of Left and Right, Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis provide the surprising answer: nothing. As the authors argue, there is no enduring philosophy, disposition, or essence uniting the various positions associated with the liberal and conservative ideologies of today.

Patrick Hunt has been teaching in Humanities at Stanford University for the past 20 years. His Ph.D. is from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, University of London in 1991. He is a National Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America since 2009 and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 1989. National Geographic Society has sponsored some of his archaeology fieldwork. He appears frequently on PBS, NOVA, National Geographic and History Channel broadcasts.

Western pundits and nostalgic Muslim thinkers alike have built up a narrative of the caliphate as an enduring institution, central to Islam and Islamic thought between the seventh and 20th centuries. In fact, the caliphate is a political or religious idea whose relevance has waxed and waned according to circumstance.

"The Myth of Skipping Breakfast and Weight Gain" is from March 14, 2016, Health section of The New York Times. It was written by Anahad O’connor and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Por meio de um texto claro e bem argumentado de Rubens Casara, um dos nomes mais prestigiados da inteligência brasileira atual, Bolsonaro: o mito e o sintoma joga luzes sobre as condições que possibilitaram a propagação da campanha bolsonarista e seu “pensamento empobrecido”.

"Lesson Learned: Dispelling Myth of the ‘Hero Teacher’" is from the Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by John Leland and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Money, Jobs and Sovereignty: Myth vs. Reality Ahead of 'Brexit' Vote" is from the June 07, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Steven Erlanger and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.