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When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East. Award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create - legal and cultural - that confine today's Palestinians just like the borders, checkpoints and so-called "Separation Barrier".

In State Capitalism, Joshua Kurlantzick ranges across the world - China, Thailand, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and more - and argues that the increase in state capitalism across the globe has, on balance, contributed to a decline in democracy. He isolates some of the reasons for state capitalism's resurgence: the fact that globalization favors economies of scale in the most critical industries and the widespread rejection of the Washington Consensus in the face of the problems that have plagued the world economy in recent years.

The year 2008 may prove to be fateful in global politics, with new leaders elected in America, Russia, and Britain, and likely in Israel and other critical countries. Ralph Buultjens examines the challenges that lie ahead and whether America's position will strengthen or weaken. Buultjens is a leading analyst of world affairs and a professor at New York University and Cambridge University.

Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the most bitterly contested issues in the United States today. We answer these questions, and many more, by presenting them to nine lawyers—the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. No other nation commits so many important questions to its highest court. Stuart Banner’s The Most Powerful Court in the World is an authoritative history of the United States Supreme Court from the Founding era to the present.

Arguing that North Korea is little more than a carefully constructed Chinese puppet state, the author looks into the heart of this "rogue nation" and finds the Chinese behind much of the terrorism and nuclear weapons manufacturing on the Korean peninsula.

United States Congress Versus Apartheid examines the role of the African Affairs Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in shaping United States foreign policy towards South Africa. This subcommittee emerged as one of the major battlegrounds where United States foreign policy towards South Africa was shaped during the Reagan-Bush era, 1981-1992 (the time-frame examined). This book demonstrates that Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush were more oriented toward strategic calculations in their formulation of United States foreign policy towards the African continent.

Pat Buchanan is sounding the alarm. Since 9/11, more than four million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders, and there are more coming every day. Our leaders in Washington lack the political will to uphold the rule of law. The Melting Pot is broken beyond repair, and the future of our nation is at stake.

To mark the 75th anniversary of D-day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness.

In a lifetime shaped by politics, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proved himself a master manipulator of Congress, the press, and the public. But when war in Europe and Asia threatened America's shores, FDR found himself in a world turned upside down, where his friends became his foes, his enemies his allies. To help wage democracy's first "total war", he turned to one of history's most remarkable triumvirates.

Brought to you by Penguin. Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world' are depicted as recklessly uninterested in how international economic forces can affect local communities. Meanwhile, nationalists are often derided as racists and bigots. But what if the two were not so...

In this provocative book, Mugambi Jouet describes why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sex, gun control, mass incarceration, the death penalty, torture, human rights, and war.

Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder? Or is America still the hope of the world? New York Times best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza says these questions are no mere academic exercise.

"An Uncertain New Chapter in Sinaloa, El Chapo’s Home State" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Paulina Villegas and Alberto Arce and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Growing Fresh Produce in a Mostly Frozen State" is from the Food section of The New York Times. It was written by Kirk Johnson and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Istanbul Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 10; Turkey Blames Islamic State" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ceylan Yeginsu and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Anonymous Hackers Fight Islamic State, but Reactions Are Mixed" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Katie Rogers and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Kerry Urges Coalition to Address Growing Islamic State Threat in Libya 
" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Marco Rubio Bets on Nevada, a State That Shaped His Childhood" is from the US section of The New York Times. It was written by Jeremy W. Peters and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Austria and 9 Balkan States Agree on Steps to Address Refugee Crisis
" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Smale and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"A News Agency with Scoops Directly from Islamic State, and a Veneer of Objectivity" is from the Culture (Arts) section of The New York Times. It was written by Rukmini Callimachi and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.