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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."—The Washington Post ABest Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times "The book everyone is talking about."—Politico The inside story of the four years when...

A CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An urgent, fiercely intelligent debut novel about "two couples, an ocean apart—one wounded by a war crime, the other just starting to reckon with being implicated in it.... An insightful book about the slow, zigzag work of healing that nonetheless...

From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath...

In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency. Theirs was the most captivating...

"A Call to Prayer, or Noise Pollution? Israel Targets Mosque Loudspeakers" is from the November 16, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Facebook Struggles to Put Out Online Fires in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" is from the December 07, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.

If Obama and Kerry were playing for history, Netanyahu and Trump were playing for time.

The departing administration intended for the speech to lay out a path to peace that they had tried to take, hoping to salvage some scrap of a legacy on the issue. The incoming administration and its Israeli ally were busy counting the days until the old team will be swept from the stage and a new Israeli-American alignment redefines the politics of the region.

"Trump Pressures Obama Over U.N. Resolution on Israeli Settlements" is from the December 22, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and Peter Baker and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"‘Trump Effect’ Is Already Shaping Events Around the World" is from the November 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"U.S. Finalizes Deal to Give Israel $38 Billion in Military Aid, a Record" is from the September 13, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and Julie Hirschfeld Davis and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"World Crises Push Israeli-Palestinian Conflict off U.N. Center Stage" is from the September 22, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Trump's Stances May Complicate Israeli Diplomacy" is from the December 24, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Soviet Document Suggests Abbas Was a KGB Spy in the 1980s" is from the September 7, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Rise of Trump Tracks Growing Debate over Global Fascism" is from the May 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"As Trump vs. Clinton Captivates World, Netanyahu Is Unusually Silent" is from the September 1, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Jared Kushner, Cast as Potential Player on Israel, Is Little Known There" is from the November 23, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and Isabel Kershner and narrated by Caroline Miller.

Just a few days after the U.N. Security Council voted to condemn Israeli settlements, Jerusalem’s municipal government signaled that it would not back down: The city intends to approve 600 housing units in the predominantly Palestinian eastern section of town on Wednesday in what a top official called a first installment of 5,600 new homes.

"A Defiant Israel Vows to Expand Its Settlements" is from the December 27, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Crypt Believed to Be Jesus’ Tomb Opened for First Time in Centuries" is from the November 3, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Israeli Debate Returns Again to Palestinians" is from the December 24, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Obama's Legacy in Question After Trump's Win" is from the November 12, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.