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One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.

Dually armed with military and strategic prowess, the Wagner Group created a new market in a vast geopolitical landscape increasingly receptive to the promises of private actors. In this trailblazing account of the Group’s origins and operations, John Lechner—the only journalist to report across its many warzones—brings us on the ground to witness Wagner partner with fragile nation states, score access to natural resources, oust peacekeeping missions, and cash in on conflicts reframed as Kremlin interests.

"Private Prisons Are Cashing in on Refugees' Desperation" is from the Health section of The New York Times. It was written by Antony Loewenstein and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. With a few notable exceptions, complaints about censorship in the twenty-first century West are complaints about the behavior of private parties: employers, media conglomerates, social media platforms, and search engines. To better understand the concerns surrounding nonstate interference with speech, Private Censorship offers an account of censorship, as well as an assessment of the ethical and political issues it raises across contexts.

With the growth of the U. S. national government under the Obama administration, the perennial debate over where to draw the line between public and private has come to the fore yet again. This time around, however, the stakes are higher than ever as unprecedented amounts of public money are poured into private corporations. In Drawing the Line, Andrew Stark takes a fresh and provocative look at how Americans debate the border between the public realm and the private.

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a German businessman, journalist philosopher, historian, political scientist, and revolutionary socialist. Engels developed Marxism together with Karl Marx. In 1848, Engels coauthored The Communist Manifesto (originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party) with Marx.

Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: The world of public bathrooms is problem - and politics-free. No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs reveals the opposite is true. No Place to Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto and beyond. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, No Place to Go is a marriage of urbanism, social narrative, and pop culture that shows the ways - momentous and mockable - public bathrooms just don’t work.

In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot - and illegal - forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately be annexed by the still-growing United States. Most failed miserably. William Walker was the outlier. Soft-spoken with no military background, in 1856 he managed to install himself as president of Nicaragua.

"Private Prisoner Vans' Long Road of Neglect" is from the July 06, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Eli Hager and Alysia Santo and narrated by Sam Scholl.

"Private Equity Executive Accused of Faking Investments" is from the March 28, 2016, Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Alexandra Stevenson and Matthew Goldstein and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Unlike most states, Maine has a long tradition of public access to private land; but what that really means – and what private landowners expect – isn't widely understood. Host Kris MacCabe will take listeners inside the long-standing yet delicate relationship between Maine's owners and users – hearing from landowners about what motivates them to keep their property open for recreation and conservation, and in other cases getting the stories behind freshly-posted No Trespassing signs

"After Cremation, Prince Is Celebrated in Private Funeral" is from the April 23, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by John Eligon and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Broadband Providers Will Need Permission to Collect Private Data" is from the October 27, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Cecilia Kang and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"U.S. To Phase out Use of Private Prisons for Federal Inmates" is from the August 18, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Charlie Savage and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Clinton Is Criticized for Private Emails in State Dept. Review" is from the May 25, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Steven Lee Myers and Eric Lichtblau and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Scalia Led Court in Taking Trips Funded by Private Sponsors" is from the Travel section of The New York Times. It was written by Eric Lipton and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"A 10-Digit Key Code to Your Private Life: Your Cellphone Number" is from the November 12, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Steve Lohr and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Haiti and Africa Projects Shed Light on Clinton's Public-Private Web" is from the October 16, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Mike Mcintire and narrated by Fleet Cooper.