Argues that the availability of information on the Internet and the proliferation of the twenty-four hour news cycles have led a cynical and ill-informed public to distrust experts and discount their opinions.

Explores the issues surrounding rap and hip-hop music by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.

This history of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history traces its pollical and social influence and eventual decline through the lives of fifteen influential individuals and their families.

Can an honest man become president? In The Race, this timely and provocative novel from bestselling author Richard North Patterson, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics.
Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio—is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment

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Examines the cultural forces and trends that have contributed to the decline of objective truth and the rise of subjectivity over factuality and common values, and points toward a new path for these truth-challenged times.

In this audacious follow-up to Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the author challenges us to revolutionize how we think about ideology and history, exposing the ideas that have sustained inequality since premodern times and outlining a fairer economic system.

"Alex Prud'homme takes us to the dining tables of the White House to look at what the presidents chose to eat, how the food was prepared and by whom, and the context in which the meals were served, making clear that every one of these details speaks volumes about both the individual president and the country he presided over. We see how these gustatory messages touch on not only sometimes curious personal tastes, but also local politics, national...

Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define. Reality itself seems...

A manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change can be real, immediate and significant, sharing disparate perspectives on related issues while explaining how cities, businesses and everyday people can make positive changes.