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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan - a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his own words: the definitive collection of his opinions, speeches, and articles on the most essential and vexing legal questions, with an intimate foreword by Justice Elena Kagan “[Scalia’s writings] are as readable today as they were when they first...

An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy—capitalism—to expand its illiberal...

Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a "rational" Western nation—even though Russian leaders for centuries have thought and acted based on their country's different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders almost always act in their own predictable and rational ways.

In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's most respected international relations scholars, explores the dynamics of the new competition for control of the region since 9/11. All three great powers have crafted strategies to increase their power in the area, which includes Afghanistan and the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. Each nation is pursuing important goals: basing rights for the US, access to natural resources for the Chinese, and increased political influence for the Russians.

The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American...

The Electoral College that governs America has been with us since 1804, when Thomas Jefferson's supporters redesigned it for his re-election. The Jeffersonians were motivated by the principle of majority rule. Gone were the days when a president would be elected by acclamation, as George Washington had been. Instead, given the emergence of intense two-party competition, the Jeffersonians wanted to make sure that the Electoral College awarded the presidency to the candidate of the majority, rather than minority, party.

Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John Matsusaka reveals in Let the People Rule, this belief is based in fact. Over the past century, while democratic governments have become more efficient, they have also become more disconnected from the people they purport to represent. The solution Matsusaka advances is familiar but surprisingly underused: direct democracy, in the form of referendums.

The New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Den of Thieves and Unscripted. "Important and stunning. This is must-read material if you want to understand what the Trump administration is still up to right now." --Lawrence O'Donnell There are questions that the Mueller report...

The unvarnished and unbiased inside story of President Donald Trump and his White House by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler Based on exclusive interviews with the president and his staff, The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game tells the real story of what...

"The Rules of Olympic Attraction" is from the August 14, 2016 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by John Branch and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

The concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogy One of today?s most outspoken and respected political commentators asks: How can our democracy function when the key institutions of government no longer operate as intended by the Constitution? Stepping back to assess three decades...

"How to Beat the New Airfare Rules" is from the June 08, 2016 Travel section of The New York Times. It was written by Stephanie Rosenbloom and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Cosby Sexual Assault Trial Can Proceed, Judge Rules" is from the May 24, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Graham Bowley and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Norway Violated Rights of Breivik, Mass Killer, Judge Rules" is from the April 20, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Henrik Pryser Libell and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Many Small Businesses Worry about Adjusting for Overtime Rules" is from the May 18, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Sarah Max and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Sweden Toughens Rules for Refugees Seeking Asylum" is from the June 21, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Dan Bilefsky and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"FCC Proposes Privacy Rules for Internet Providers" is from the March 10, 2016, Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Cecilia Kang and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Food Theft in Italy May Not Be a Crime, Court Rules" is from the May 03, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Gaia Pianigiani and Sewell Chan and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"'Brexit' Will Require a Vote in Parliament, U.K. Court Rules" is from the October 03, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Stephen Castle and Steven Erlanger and narrated by Fleet Cooper.