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Common Sense by Thomas Paine is one of the most influential political works ever written — a bold and passionate call for freedom, reason, and independence. Written during the American Revolution, this timeless classic challenges tyranny, questions inherited power, and inspires ordinary people to think for themselves. With powerful arguments delivered in clear and direct language, Paine transformed political philosophy into a movement that changed history.

A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and provide a sweeping view of his era. Henry Kissinger is one of the most consequential foreign...

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...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The roar of tanks in Donbas. The wail of sirens in Kyiv. The hurried footsteps of refugees at the border. The Ukraine war is the largest military conflict in Europe since 1945 – and it continues to change our world to this day. This audiobook offers a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is an audio adaptation of the ⁠OpenStax Introduction to Political Science textbook⁠. The audiobook is produced by ⁠Audileo⁠. What OpenStax says about their textbook: Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, Introduction to...

The political, and very human, dynamics behind presidential cabinets, from George Washington to Joe Biden, come to life in The Best and Worst Presidential Cabinets in U.S. History. What Lindsay M. Chervinsky offers in this eye-opening Audible Original is an investigation of the good, the bad, and the ugly of presidential cabinets. Covering more than two centuries of history, it’s a fascinating tour of scandals, colorful personalities, big events, and triumphs of diversity and bipartisanship. Not to mention jobs with a very high turnover rate.

Responding to Mearsheimer's controversial essay blaming the West for the Ukraine crisis, McFaul and Sestanovich put the blame back on Putin and his ideological extremism, denying that NATO expansion provoked him. Mearsheimer replies.

The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the...

The QAnon Master Series: 2 AUDIOBOOKS IN 1 The storm is here. The Great Awakening has begun. Are you ready to uncover the full story behind QAnon—from the first cryptic drops to the deepest secrets of the fight ahead? The QAnon Master Series brings you two explosive books in one unmissable...

An incisive analysis of one of the most disruptive forces in modern American politics, The Right-Wing Idea Factory is essential listening for anyone seeking to understand the fundamental transformation of conservatism in the Trump era and beyond. While Donald Trump's 2024 re-election was hailed...

By many measures, the US census is the government's largest nonwartime operation, and one of the world's oldest and biggest data-making endeavors. The 2020 census required more than a decade of planning and technical work―not to mention managing nearly a quarter of a million temporary workers...

We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come from? All the Wrong Moves offers a new, eye-opening answer, rooted in history, business, and the author’s firsthand experience, that reveals the true origins of America’s current political crisis. This...

O novo livro do autor de Sapiens e Homo Deus explora as grandes questões do presente e o que podemos fazer para melhorá-lo. Como podemos nos proteger de guerras nucleares, cataclismos ambientais e crises tecnológicas? O que fazer sobre a epidemia de fake news ou a ameaça do terrorismo? O que...

“One of the best-kept secrets of the last thirty years is that big business, government, and the wider culture have waged a silent war against parents, undermining the work that they do…parents have been left twisting in the wind by a society intent on other agendas.”—from the book In...

Peggy Noonan, a speechwriter for the Reagan White House and one of our most astute political observers, argues in this compelling book that Americans must look closely at Hillary Rodham Clinton and the implications of her calculated bid for power. In The Case against Hillary Clinton, she offers...

“If the general public knew what was going on inside the White House, they would scream.” So states one Secret Service agent, just a small link in the chain of security that has guarded the public image of the presidency and the men who define it—until now. With unprecedented access to...

An original collection of the most influential documents in American history from the bestselling authors of A Patriot’s History of the United States Since 2005, A Patriot’s History of the United States has become a modern classic for its defense of America as a unique country founded on the...

"Octopuses and the Puzzle of Aging" is from the December 04, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Godfrey Smith and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Why is the peanut allergy an epidemic that only seems to be found in Western cultures? Over four million people in the United States alone are affected by peanut allergies, while there are no reported cases in India, a country where peanuts are the primary ingredient in many baby food products. Where did this allergy come from? And does medicine play any kind of role in the phenomenon? After her own child had an anaphylactic reaction to peanut butter, historian Heather Fraser decided to discover the answers to these questions.

#1 New York Times Bestseller! America's top politicians have discovered the scam to end all scams. Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption—and winning—for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. In...