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Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free
by Jed S. Rakoff; read by Joe Barrett
A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that define the judiciary today, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free features essays examining why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power. Learn More
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen
by Linda Colley; read by Susan Ericksen
Vivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions. Learn More
What's Luck Got To Do With It?
by Edward D. Kleinbard; read by Matthew Josdal
Like it or not, our lives and opportunities are determined largely by luck. In this thought-provoking book, Edward D. Kleinbard shows that while we can't undo every instance of misfortune, we can offer a path to not just a fairer America, but greater economic growth, more broadly shared. Learn More
On the Job
by Celeste Monforton, Jane M. Von Bergen; read by Suzie Althens
The inspiring story of worker centers that are cropping up across the country and leading the fight for today's workers. Learn More
Churchill's Band of Brothers
by Damien Lewis; read by Derek Perkins
Award-winning war reporter and internationally bestselling military historian Damien Lewis explores one of World War II's most remarkable Special Forces missions during the Normandy landings on D-Day—and the extraordinary hunt that followed to take down a cadre of fugitive SS and Gestapo war criminals. Learn More
Why The New Deal Matters
by Eric Rauchway; read by Peter Lerman
This book looks at how the legacy of the New Deal, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises. Learn More
Firepower
by Matthew J. Lacombe; read by Mike Chamberlain
Firepower sheds vital new light on how the NRA has grown powerful by mobilizing average Americans, and how it uses its GOP alliance to advance its objectives and shape the national agenda. Learn More
Crackup
by Samuel L. Popkin; read by John Pruden
A consistently surprising analysis of how and why the Republican Party imploded in the last decade, setting the stage for the rise of Trump and extremist candidates more generally. Learn More
Kill Switch
by Adam Jentleson; read by P.J. Ochlan
An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Learn More
The Red Mirror
by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova; read by Michael Page
What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia? In The Red Mirror, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory to explain Putin's leadership. Learn More
The Middle Way
by Derek Chollet; read by Christopher Grove
A portrait of the effectiveness of moderation in US foreign policy, as illustrated by three of America's most consequential and widely-admired postwar presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, George H. W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Learn More
Where Great Powers Meet
by David Shambaugh; read by Eric Jason Martin
The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, David Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. Learn More
After You Vote
by Courtney Emerson; read by Nicol Zanzarella
Equal parts information and inspiration, After You Vote: A Woman's Guide to Making an Impact, from Town Hall to Capitol Hill is both a primer and call-to-action for women of all ages who want to exercise their voices and engage more fully in civic life. Learn More
Forever Prisoners
by Elliot Young; read by Paul Brion
Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Learn More
Meddling in the Ballot Box
by Dov H. Levin; read by Lewis Arlt
Meddling in the Ballot Box is the first book to provide a comprehensive analysis of foreign meddling in elections from the dawn of the modern era to the 2016 Russian intervention in the US election. Learn More
MI5
by Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney, Andrew Moretta; read by Michael Page
This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964. Learn More
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell
A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy. Learn More
Except for Palestine
by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick; read by Paul Boehmer
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and experts on US policy in the region.
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Teetering
by Ken Rees; read by Graham Rowat
Teetering makes the case for urgent action by financial institutions, investors, regulators, policymakers, employers, and influencers to recognize and address the financial forces that have pushed the American dream out of reach for so many. Learn More
The Nine Lives of Pakistan
by Declan Walsh; read by Roger Clark
The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Learn More
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