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THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United...

America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today. “Isaacson uses a jeweler’s loupe to scan what gives his snappy...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it...

The #1 USA Today Bestseller and Instant New York Times Bestseller From California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics “Go slow,” his political elders advised him, but Gavin Newsom has...

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, precision, and moral force, she exposes the tactics of today's far-right MAGA system: information warfare, aggressive retribution, conformism enforced by fear, and pervasive dismantling of legal checks and balances necessary to defend the public interest and uphold justice.

The war for your mind is already underway. Most people don't know they're losing it. You are being targeted. Not with bullets, with information. Carefully constructed narratives designed to make you angry, afraid, divided, and dependent. Algorithms built to keep you outraged and scrolling. News cycles engineered to exhaust your critical thinking until you stop questioning and start accepting. It is working. On your neighbors. On your family. Possibly on you. Information Warfare is Book Four of the Citizen Servant Leader series, the defensive manual every American needs and almost nobody has...

A New York Times Bestseller A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author. “Magisterial.” –The...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American democracy set it apart from other revolutions, whether it can...

The Last American President rips open America's wounded democracy to expose a terrifying truth: Donald Trump isn't an anomaly—he's the inevitable product of a system engineered to fail. This searing investigation reveals how a man forged by childhood trauma, pathological narcissism, and calculated cruelty didn't hijack democracy—he was handed the keys by those who should have been its guardians. Hartmann uncovers the unholy alliance between Trump's damaged psyche and America's rotted institutions.

*Read by the author and celebrated podcaster Jennifer Welch!* From Jennifer Welch, the host of the widely popular "I've Had It" podcast and a trusted voice in new media, comes a piercing, incisive, no-holds-barred take on the rising threat of theocracy in America and a fresh vision for how we...

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy - one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.

An urgent call to rekindle our shared American ideals. This program is read by the author. We are living through a time of crisis. The problems we face grow more serious, while our divisions continue to widen. But our history overflows with people who used the power of our foundational virtues...

I recently wrote a series of five short-read books on the subject of freedom in the United States – its history, its nature, its requirements, its challenges, and its opponents. In my social media space, I posted about parts of it – and a post drew a response that sent me back to my keyboard. The response came from Trenton Bennett, an old friend and colleague whose intelligence, insights, and values I’ve come to trust over the years. In a single post, he made an argument that extended my own, adding elements that I’d neglected. The more I thought about the points he was making, the ...

They long to end democracy. There are three organizations in the United State that have all, in recent years, signaled and even said outright that Democracy's day is done in the United States - and each is poised to replace it. These groups include the Grand Old Party - US Republicans, who have declared for almost two decades now their desire to install a "permanent majority"; the Christian Nationalists, Evangelicals who have believed since the mid-Seventies that the United States should be a theocracy, not a democracy, with their own people in charge; and the oligarchy, a network of ultra-...

Much of the discussion of freedom in the previous two volumes in this series focused on the human past and was, to some degree, abstract – though modern events did make appearances. In this volume, the focus is primarily on the present – this third decade of the 21st century, when anti-democratic forces are rising not only in the Unites States but around the free world. Specific events and situations will be more frequently referenced this time around, but won’t be dwelt upon: this series is ultimately about ideas, and to the extent that real-world issues are discussed, it will be in ...

The concept of freedom, applied not just to individuals but to a society as a whole, is essentially a model for that society – not just a feature of the community, not just one of many dynamics, but the very foundation of that society. Put another way, if a society is truly free, then everything about it derives from the shared freedom of its members. Every feature of that society is premised on freedom, based on the idea that everyone within it has the autonomy to live the life they choose, limited only by their agreement not to intrude upon the freedom of others, nor to compromise ...

What does the future of freedom look like, in the Western world and beyond? What is the human potential, in the long run, where freedom is concerned? And what are the ultimate limitations of freedom, where human society is concerned? What can we never get back? What are we unlikely to change? What must we learn to live with? Speculative these questions truly are, so no definitive answers follow – the pages that follow will host nothing more than conjecture. But it’s useful conjecture, if it spurs thought about what we have today and the possibilities that we might actually pursue, ...

Freedom means different things to different people. The truth of this can be established in a five-minute Google search: those who champion freedom almost never do so in the ideal or the abstract, but within whatever domain works for them in particular. Here are some examples of those very subjective freedoms: The freedom to take up knitting The freedom to learn a foreign language The freedom to go to church The freedom to speak one’s opinion publicly The freedom to participate in the political process The freedom to not go to church The freedom to love and marry whomever they please The ...

Freedom is different things to different people. To some, it’s the freedom to go wherever you want on your bicycle. To others, it’s the freedom to vote for a new mayor. To others, it’s the freedom to speak your mind in public, even if what you say is unflattering to the mayor. Some treasure their freedom to go to church. Or to have a job. Or to have food and shelter. For some, freedom means refusing service to those who look or behave differently. To deny their wives and daughters the liberties their peers and sons enjoy. For some, it’s the freedom to shun the immigrant. The freedom...

Freedom is a word with too many meetings, justifying too many wrongs. This collection of essays surveys various aspects of freedom, from its ancient origins to the misuse and abuse of the concept, from the challenges it presents to the possibilities it holds. Humankind does not yet live free; but we could.