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Americas political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: its working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us, and how we are polarizing it, with disastrous results. “The American political systemwhich includes everyone from voters to journalists to the presidentis full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,” writes political analyst Ezra Klein....

Exposing how oppressive cultural codes—encapsulated in buzzwords such as inclusion, diversity, social justice, appropriation—are constricting the vibrant intellectual life of the world’s freest country, a renowned author and playwright examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the U.S. throughout history.

"“Extraordinarily brave...plain funny as hell, too.” —Zakiya Dalila Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Black Girl “A subtle, ironic, wise, state-of-the-nation novel, sharp enough to draw blood, hidden inside a moving, intimate, sincere and very real love story--or vice versa.” —Nick Hornby On Jess’s first day at Goldman Sachs, she’s less than thrilled to learn she’ll be on the same team as Josh, her white, conservative...

Van Jones has made it his mission to challenge voters and viewers to stand in one anothers shoes and disagree constructively. In Beyond the Messy Truth, Jones offers a blueprint for transforming our collective anxiety into meaningful change. Tough on Donald Trump but showing respect and empathy for his supporters, Jones takes aim at the failures of both parties before and after Trumps victory. He urges both sides to abandon the politics of accusation...

An autobiographical novel of the 1960s takes readers on a tour of American life during this tumultuous time, introducing "cameos" by Barry Goldwater, Ayn Rand, and Robert Welch of the John Birch Society.

An investigative journalist, drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, reveals, for the first time, the far-right conspiracy that's stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis, and tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back to get global emissions under control. "Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in...

Remember America? There may come a time when no one will. There will be no monuments to American heroes, no stories that will praise them. The United States will have become a dark chapter in human history, best forgotten. In Erasing America: Destroying Our Future by Erasing Our Past (releasing August 21st), James Robbins reveals that the radical Left controls education, the media, and the Democratic party. and they seek to demean, demolish, and relentlessly...

Michael Anton, the author of a controversial viral essay, reframes the upcoming 2020 election by taking a look at the unchallenged Democratic rule in California. America is divided as almost never before, with contesting political factions regarding themselves not as rivals but as enemies. The Democratic Party has become the party of "identity politics" and they look forward to imposing nationally what they have achieved in California: one-party...

"Free speech and freedom of conscience have long been core American values. Yet a growing intolerance from the left side of the political spectrum is threatening Americans' ability to freely express beliefs without fear of retaliation. USA Today columnist and Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers calls it "The Silencing." Powers chronicles this forced march toward conformity in an expose; of the illiberal tactics deployed to shut down debate on some...