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"America is becoming a class-based society. It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent, especially the top 0.01 percent, and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential, and widening gap in American society is between the upper middle class and everyone else. Reeves defines the upper middle class as those whose...

This third deck of flashcards contains 100 of the most commonly tested concepts on the GED social studies test, for quick and effective study and review, anywhere.

This second deck of flashcards contains 100 of the most commonly tested concepts on the GED social studies test, for quick and effective study and review, anywhere.

This sixth deck of flashcards contains close to 100 of the most commonly tested concepts on the GED social studies test, for quick and effective study and review, anywhere.

"In Breaking Through Power, Nader draws from a lifetime waging--and often winning--David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the United States government. In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer advocate highlights the success stories of fellow Americans who organize change and work together to derail the many ways in which wealth manipulates politics, labor, media, the environment, and the quality of national...

Bestselling author Dan Pfeiffer dissects how the right-wing built a massive, billionaire-funded disinformation machine powerful enough to bend reality and nearly steal the 2020 election. From the perspective of someone who has spent decades on the front lines of politics and media, Pfeiffer lays out how the right-wing media apparatus works, where it came from, and what progressives can do to fight back against disinformation. Over a period of decades,...

This first practice test will familiarize you with the content, format, and timing of the official TASC Social Studies Test. Includes technology-enhanced item types like those you'll encounter on the official test, plus detailed answer explanations and instant scoring.

"Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women. YouTube never planned to radicalise young men. But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement'. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships. Social warming has happened gradually -- as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence....

"1943: In the midst of the brutal, hard-fought Solomon Islands campaign between the Allies and the Japanese forces, Lieutenant Billy Boyle receives an odd assignment: he's sent by the powerful Kennedy family to investigate a murder in which PT skipper (and future president) Jack Kennedy has been implicated. The victim is a native coastwatcher, an allied intelligence operative, whom Kennedy discovered on the island of Tulagi with his head bashed in....

"A crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats"--