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The Peacemaker podcast explores a harrowing suicide cluster that unfolded in a rural college town. Hosted by BEN WESTHOFF and RYAN KRULL, this series is set at Truman State University, sometimes called the Harvard of the Midwest, where a few years back a string of suicides at the Alpha Kappa Lambda house shook the community to its core. As fraternity member after fraternity member took his own life, police realized they all had a common link— a fellow brother named Brandon Grossheim, who was close friends with each victim, discovered some of the bodies, and later dated some of the victims’...

Winner of the Society of Presidential Descendants Book Award and the Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize One of the Wall Street Journal’s best political books of 2022 A masterful account of how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat, won...

As a teenager in Palestine, Sami al Jundi had one ambition: overthrowing Israeli occupation. With two friends, he began to build a bomb to use against the police. But when it exploded prematurely, killing one of his friends, al Jundi was caught and sentenced to 10 years in prison. It was in an Israeli jail that his unlikely transformation began. Al Jundi was welcomed into a highly organized, democratic community of political prisoners who required that members of their cell read, engage in political discourse on topics ranging from global revolutions to the precepts of nonviolent protest and revolution.

Llamado "El Pacificador", fue rey de España entre 1874 y 1885, en un momento difícil para la nación: El trunco trance de la Monarquía a la República. Hijo de la reina Isabel II de España y su marido, Francisco de Asís de Borbón, reinó tras la Restauración borbónica, hasta su muerte prematura a los 27 años, víctima de la tuberculosis. ¿Qué pasó durante el corto tiempo que reinó? ¡Se lo contamos!.