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How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don’t march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award-winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to...

A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Book “For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline.”—Madeleine Albright A collection of essays, letters, and poems from E. B. White, “one of the country’s great literary treasures” (New York...

Die lange erwarteten Erinnerungen von Angela Merkel. 16 Jahre trug Angela Merkel die Regierungsverantwortung für Deutschland, führte das Land durch zahlreiche Krisen und prägte mit ihrem Handeln und ihrer Haltung die deutsche und internationale Politik und Gesellschaft. Doch natürlich wurde Angela Merkel nicht als Kanzlerin geboren. In ihren gemeinsam mit ihrer langjährigen politischen Beraterin Beate Baumann verfassten Erinnerungen schaut sie zurück auf ihr Leben in zwei deutschen Staaten – 35 Jahre in der DDR, 35 Jahre im wiedervereinigten Deutschland.

A chilling and urgently needed exposé on the forces pushing American politics and religion toward a post-constitutional autocracy This program is read by the author. From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural pulpits, from Catholic monasteries to Beltway think tanks and Project 2025, a convergence...

A renowned political scientist’s searing explanation for the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of tremendous political optimism: communism was receding and democracy was on the march in Eastern Europe...

In an increasingly polarized age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often criticized as superficial or confected disagreements designed to distract us from more important issues. Is this true, or are they rather more fundamental than that? In this thoughtful and passionate intervention...

Wie sollten wir mit Menschen umgehen, deren politische Ansichten uns fremd oder sogar gefährlich erscheinen? Sympathisanten der extremen Rechten sind Kolleginnen, Vereinsfreunde, Nachbarn – und damit Teil unseres engsten Umfelds. Die Soziologin und Journalistin Jana Glaese lotet aus, wie jenseits öffentlicher Empörung und moralischer Eindeutigkeit alltägliches Zusammenleben möglich ist – und wann nicht.

Brought to you by Penguin. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical...

In The Fix, McQuade draws on her decades of experience as a federal prosecutor to reveal how systems of organized crime and political opportunism exploit the levers of power—using corruption, cruelty, and chaos as tools to dominate institutions and eliminate accountability. With clarity...

Public trust in government is near an all-time low after decades of disruptive events that have exposed corruption, waste, and dysfunction in Washington, D.C. Like the contractions that precede a birth, the nation is now experiencing the pains of transformation as it undergoes a rebirth—...

在社会冲突与利益博弈的夹击下，一座原本不起眼的古代希腊城邦，被残酷的历史巨轮“逼”出了影响后世数千年的民主政治制度。权力的天平如何从少数贵族家族手中，惊险且艰难地转移到广泛的平民阶层？这不仅是一场轰...

استمع إلى قصة ولادة الديمقراطية من رحم الأزمات والصراعات السياسية التي عصفت بمجتمع أثينا القديم. رحلة صوتية تأخذك إلى شوارع مدينة صغيرة تحدت سلطة النبلاء والمال،...

Duik in drieduizend jaar Europese geschiedenis, van mythische goden tot het harde experiment van de eerste democratie. Maak van je wandeling of rit naar werk een sfeervolle luisterreis langs meedogenloze machtsspelletjes en gevallen wereldrijken. Deze boeiende tijdreis biedt een overzichtelijk...

Vivi il violento scontro di classe nell'antica Grecia che ha generato il più grande esperimento politico: la democrazia. Perfetto per trasformare i tuoi tragitti quotidiani in un viaggio storicamente immersivo, questo saggio svela le vere origini del potere condiviso. Tra riforme audaci e...

The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by the Supreme Court in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally made good on the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment, which nearly a century before...

Kinder betreuen, Eltern pflegen, kochen und putzen – für viele fühlt sich der Feierabend an wie eine zweite Schicht. Und dann reicht das Geld nicht. Während andere mit Finanzgeschäften Millionen verdienen, bleibt denen, die Care-Arbeit leisten, kaum etwas zum Leben. Aber Burnout gilt als persönliches Versagen und Altersarmut als individuelles Pech.

Der Kapitalismus ist, wie Clara E. Mattei zeigt, weder naturgegeben noch unvermeidlich – er ist ein vergleichsweise junges System, das überwunden werden kann und muss. In ihrer Streitschrift erklärt die Ökonomin, warum anhaltende Probleme wie Armut, Arbeitslosigkeit und Inflation keine Fehler im System sind, sondern dessen zentrale Wesensmerkmale.

Bloomsbury presents After the Fall written and read by Ben Rhodes. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world’ The Times To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of...

After his retirement from the Marine Corps in the early 1930s, General Smedley D. Butler embarked on a national lecture tour, where he gave his speech about how commercial interests benefit from war. The speech was well received and he wrote an expanded version of it, which was published as War Is A Racket. The work was published by Reader's Digest as a condensed book supplement, which added to its popularity.  

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to explain how American politics has turned into such a dumpster fire—and what Democrats need to do to get us...