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New York Times Bestseller Washington Post Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F...

The Idaho Farm Bureau Federation discusses the working of the Idaho Legislature as pertaining to agriculture issues that affect Idaho's farmers and ranchers.

When your work is inextricable from your identity, your community, and your own liberation, you need a unique praxis of care to sustain it—and for mission-driven activists, organizers, and changemakers working under oppressive systems, making space to center vital needs like rest, self-care, and healthy boundaries isn’t as simple as clocking out. Practicing Liberation reorients collective justice work toward a model that transforms the effects of injustice, harm, and oppressive systems into resilience, joy, and community care.

*GRAMMY WINNER* *National Bestseller* *Nominated for an Audie for Best Business/Personal Development Audiobook* A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisdom from venerable civil rights champion, the late Congressman John Lewis at the end of his remarkable life...

In this insightful and politically powerful essay, Orwell attempts to evaluate non-violence as a method of political leverage outside of the unique circumstances in which Gandhi successfully deployed his method. He discusses the particular context that gave Satyagraha political force: the struggle for national self-determination in colonial India, and looks to Gandhi’s method as a reference for what he feels is a necessary discussion of alternative methods of political resistance.

The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American...

When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation.

This is an ideal introduction to the ideas of a man whom many regard as the greatest thinker of our time. Here we encounter the stages in the development of his unique philosophy of consciousness, his key intellectual breakthroughs, his theory of history, and his diagnosis of the political ills of the modern age. The book provides a veritable catalog of the thinkers who created the intellectual foundation of the twentieth century.

The French thinker and political theorist Georges Sorel (1847-1922), fired up by his interest in Marxism and his anger at the injustice of the Dreyfus case, faced this challenge and in the seven chapters of Reflections on Violence he explored the question. It proved sufficiently stimulating over succeeding decades to be espoused by both Marxists and Fascists alike: class struggle, revolution and above all radical change were central to Sorel’s thought.

This famous treatise began as a letter to a young French friend who asked Edmund Burke’s opinion on whether France’s new ruling class would succeed in creating a better order. Doubtless the friend expected a favorable reply, but Burke was suspicious of certain tendencies of the Revolution from the start and perceived that the revolutionaries were actually subverting the true "social order". Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world.

Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian". As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century’s cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivers an intimate and personal look at the woman behind the public servant. In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Going Rogue—the bestselling nonfiction book of 2009—Palin gave readers a look at her upbringing, her dynamic career, and her candidacy...

At a time when democracy is under pressure both within and around the European Union, EMBRACE explores what it means to defend democratic values in an increasingly complex world.In this five-part series, activists, advocates, and researchers from the EMBRACE consortium share on-the-ground perspectives from some of the EU’s most critical neighbouring regions. From resisting authoritarianism in Algeria and Belarus, to grassroots movements in Serbia and Tunisia, to navigating geopolitical tensions in Georgia and North Macedonia, to working or democracy during war in Gaza and Ukraine — ...

Welcome to Revolutionary Reflections. Here we talk about anything that is everything from current events, politics, and more.

Abraham Lincoln, at the budding age of 28 and just beginning his law practice, delivered an impactful speech on January 27, 1838, highlighting the perils of mob rule. His words, eerily relevant today, cautioned against the potential destruction of the United States by those who disregard its laws. Lincolns belief in the Constitution and law as the nations political religion resonates throughout his speech, known as the Lyceum Address. Given before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln paid homage to the political system instituted by the Founding Fathers while warning ...

Welcome to The Reflection Podcast, hosted by Raina & Robbie. Join these two each week as they spill all the tea completely UNFILTERED & reflect on all the things going on in their lives, in pop culture + so much more! Crack open a Redbull, grab a glass of wine & meet Raina & Robbie EVERY Wednesday at the mics. Find all things TRP-related here: https://withkoji.com/@TheReflectionPodcast?fbclid=PAAaa-JrrZwRJ6vmdSRlvVqnB8LMQ2VeE65ZYQw9QdgYYDc0leD4NCMdKELO0

Worldwide trade has become increasingly complex, risky and unpredictable. Those who engage in cross-border trade have been forced to change long-standing practices and adjust their supply chain to continue providing the world with desired goods at an optimal cost. This coming year will continue to present those who engage in cross border trade with uncertainty and challenge. This podcast is intended to offer my reflections on this critical topic.

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Part memoir, part rumination on the declining moral compass of the American political class, The Unraveling is the first book to place restoring political ethics at the center of the renewal of American democracy. Politics is a brutal game, but Bauer asks where does the line fall between the "hardball" of politics and attacks on the very foundation of democracy? Looking back on forty-six years in the political arena, Bauer tries to better grasp what has gone wrong and to understand what shaped his own decisions and actions.

The Reflection Of Reality podcast, is a variety podcast, where we talk about reality, and all things in it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.