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  • Reading the Constitution

    Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

    A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism dominates the Supreme Court. Textualists claim that the right way to interpret the Constitution and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right

    by Max Boot ...
    A “must read” (Joe Scarborough) by a New York Times– best- selling author, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents a necessary defense of American democracy.Praised on publication as “one of the most impressive and unfl inching diagnoses of the pathologies in Republican politics that led to Trump’s rise” (Jonathan Chait, New York), The Corrosion of Conservatism documents a president who has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Foreign Affairs Strategy

    Logic for American Statecraft

    This is a book on how to think - strategically - about foreign policy. Focusing on American foreign policy, this book discusses the national interest as a concept in strategic logic and describes how to select objectives that will take advantage of opportunities to promote interests, while protecting them against threats. It also discusses national power and influence, as well as the political, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The System

    Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

    From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change.There is a mounting sense that our political-economic system is no longer working, but what is the core problem and how do we remedy it? With the characteristic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Everything for Everyone

    An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

    By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Get It Together

    Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe

    by Jesse Watters ...
    Can the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country?When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked him:First, he liked these people.Second, their political positions were not primarily from books, teachers, or ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Communal Luxury

    The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

    by Kristin Ross ...
    Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first centuryKristin Ross’s highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today’s concerns—internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Lie Detectives

    In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age

    How can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called “Moneyball for politics,” journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era’s most pressing challenge: how to win in a world awash in lies.The Lie Detectives is a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • You're More Powerful than You Think

    A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen

    by Eric Liu ...
    Is this the America you want? If not, here's how to claim the power to change your country.We are in an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing. From the election of Donald Trump to the upending of the major political parties to the spread of grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter and $15 Now, people across the country and across the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Eisenhower & Cambodia

    Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War

    This historical study examines America’s Cold War diplomacy and covert operations intended to lure Cambodia from neutrality to alliance.Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, the global ideological struggle with the Soviet Union guaranteed US vigilance throughout Southeast Asia. Cambodia’s leader, Norodom Sihanouk, refused to take sides ... Read more

    $28.99 USD $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fiery Angel

    Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West

    by Michael Walsh ...
    Without an understanding and appreciation of the culture we seek to preserve and protect, the defense of Western civilization is fundamentally futile; a culture that believes in nothing cannot defend itself, because it has nothing to defend. The past not only still has something to tell us, but it also has something that it must tell us. In this profound and wide-ranging historical survey, Michael ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Love Your Enemies

    How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERTo get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against American, creating a “culture of contempt”—the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Work, Retire, Repeat

    The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy

    A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States—and how we can fix it.While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all. Instead, Americans—whose elders face the highest risk of poverty compared to workers in peer nations—are fed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    Series series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Of Boys and Men

    Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It

    Lost.Disaffected.Adrift.Checked out.Dislocated.Withdrawn.What is happening with so many of our boys and men? Economists lament inexplicable drops in male labor force participation. Public health officials point to disproportionately male “deaths of despair” from suicide or overdose. Parents see their sons struggling and worry what it means for their future.In Of Boys and Men, Richard Reeves ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline

    by Andreas Malm ...
    Property will cost us the earthThe science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven't we moved beyond peaceful protest?In this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Orwell On Truth

    by George Orwell ...
    Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell’s career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his ... Read more

    $10.49 USD $1.99 USD

  • The First 90 Days in Government

    Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels

    More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges-from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments-that will make their transitions even more challenging than in the business world.Now Michael Watkins, author of the bestselling book ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Devil's Chessboard

    Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

    by David Talbot ...
    An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Chasing the Scream

    The Inspiration for the Feature Film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday"

    by Johann Hari ...
    The New York Times BestsellerWhat if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix.One of Johann Hari's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What is Property?

    Property is Theft!

    Series series Critical Editions
    'One of the most vigorous thinkers of the age ... the prophet of modern society.' The New York TimesPierre-Joseph Proudhon was one of the most important and influential political theorists of the 19th century. On publication, Proudhon's first significant book What Is Property? created a sensation - in its pages, he declared 'I am an anarchist' and 'Property is theft!' The latter is Proudhon's - ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • School Moms

    Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

    by Laura Pappano ...
    An investigative study of the far-right’s attack on education and an on-the-ground look at the parent activist battle, on either side of the debate, to control the future of public schoolsFor well over a century, public schools have been a non-partisan gathering place and vital center of civic life in America—but something has changed. In School Moms, journalist Laura Pappano explores the on-the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Divided by God

    America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our timeEven before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that church-state matters in the United States had reached a crisis. With Divided by God, Noah Feldman shows that the crisis is as old as this country--and looks to our nation's past to show how it might be ... Read more

    $11.99 USD