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Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble - but who is really to blame? In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and antidemocratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the result of the deprivations of globalization or the malign decisions of elites. Rather, he places the blame for the rise of illiberalism on the people themselves.

In 1789, the people of France decided to overtake the monarchy of their country in favor of a republic. The French Revolution played out like an echo of the American Revolution of the decade prior, with people rising against their governing bodies. Like the American Revolution, the French Revolution had its dissidents and supporters. Thomas Paine was one such supporter, and Rights of Man was his manifesto in support of people fighting for liberty.

A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation. “A very...

As flagship of the American news media, the New York Times is the world’s most powerful news outlet. With thousands of reporters covering events from all corners of the globe, the Times has the power to influence wars, foment revolution, shape economies and change the very nature of our culture. It doesn’t just cover the news: it creates it.

The Soldier That Left: The Untold Story of Loose Change is a raw and unflinching memoir by Korey Rowe, tracing his journey from soldier to fugitive to unlikely producer of one of the most controversial documentaries of all time. Beginning with his enlistment just before 9/11, Rowe recounts two brutal combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he witnessed the violence, futility, and corruption of America’s wars. Disillusioned by lies about weapons of mass destruction and trapped by a stop-loss order, Rowe faced a moral crossroads.

Det koster et mandat Af Mads Brügger er Historien om hvordan Mike Fonseca havnede i en kælder med Lars Løkke Rasmussen og her lærte sandheden om Moderaterne. Mike Fonseca var en kun 27-årig ung sygeplejerske fra Køge, der søgte valg til Folketinget, fordi han troede påLars Løkke...

Draw the Line in Ohio by legal analyst Rory Riley Topping and Washington correspondent Josh Rultenberg offers a grounded, firsthand overview of unfair redistricting through the story of Ohio’s recent gerrymandering fight.

సోవియట్ సమాజం ఎంత అనాకర్షణీయమైన వ్యవస్థ అయినా అది ఉండబట్టే అంతర్జాతీయ రాజకీయాలలో అమెరికా సామ్రాజ్యదాహం...

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The speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the role that slavery played in America's founding. In Frederick Douglass's American Founding, Dennis Rasmussen traces the great abolitionist's intellectual journey from denouncing the founders as hypocrites and the Constitution as evil to embracing them both.

“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance. … Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times … Lepore is the voice of sanity.”—Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget “Much in history is headlong but few grand...

From the leading political advisor and bestselling author, a revelatory account of how power is built and a blueprint for Democrats in 2026 and beyond. Supermajorities used to be the norm in American politics, yet today it seems unimaginable that our nation could break hard for one party or the...

AN INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A HILL TIMES BEST BOOK 2024 Award-winning author and broadcast journalist Carol Off digs deep into six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized in recent years—including democracy, freedom and truth—and asks whether we can reclaim their value...

A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has...

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.

Before and after World War II, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity - between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. A global financial system was devised explicitly to allow nations to manage capitalism.  Yet this golden era turned out to be lightning in a bottle. From the 1970s on, a power shift occurred, in which financial regulations were rolled back, taxes were cut, inequality worsened, and disheartened voters turned to far-right faux populism. Can democracy find a way to survive?

Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get anything done. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led Congress - and the United States - to the brink of institutional failure.

The Naked Communist has sold almost two million copies. It found its way into the libraries of the CIA, the FBI, the White House, and homes all across America and the world. The Naked Communist contains a distillation of more than a hundred books and treatises on communism, many written by Marxist authors. We see the communist the way he sees himself - stripped of propaganda and pretense. Explained here is the amazing appeal of communism, its history, and its basic and unchanging concepts.

In The Tech Coup, Marietje Schaake explains how technology companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives and our governments. She takes us beyond the headlines to high-stakes meetings with human rights defenders, business leaders, computer scientists, and politicians to show how technologies have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if political power were not born from blood, conquest, or divine command—but from the consent of free people? In *Two Treatises of Government*, John Locke gives one of the defining arguments of modern political philosophy. Written in the...