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Next Generation Democracy

November 9, 2010 Author: Jared Duval The challenges of the twenty-first century are of an unprecedented scale. Climate change, financial instability, the housing crisis, the need for health care-all of...

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Tropic Of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

May 1, 2011 Author: Christian ParentiAn investigative journalist’s tough analysis of how some of the world’s most vulnerable states—those with a history of economic and political disasters—are...

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The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society

August 18, 2011 Author: Michael EdwardsIn the past two decades, '"civil society" has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and...

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The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

September 22, 2011 Author: Robert H. Frank Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert...

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Black Tuesday

October 21, 2011 Author: Nomi Prins Leila Khan is a beautiful, enterprising immigrant, struggling to find her purpose in a tumultuous America. Her Wall Street diner job introduces her to banker,...

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What the U.S. Can Learn From China

January 11, 2012 Author: Ann Lee While America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate, and a surge in government debt, China’s economy is the second largest in the...

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The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right...

August 18, 2012 Author: Tova Andrea Wang The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics...

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America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy

September 25, 2012 Author: Gus Speth In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at...

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Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility

April 29, 2013 Author: Robert Kuttner One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking...

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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and...

January 13, 2014 Author: Ian Haney López Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food...

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All the Presidents' Bankers: The Alliances that Drive American Power

April 8, 2014 Author: Nomi Prins All the Presidents’ Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic...

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Angels by the River

November 5, 2014 Author: James Gustave Speth Angels by the River follows James Gustave Speth’s unlikely path—from Southern boyhood to his career as an influential mainstream environmentalist to his...

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Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America

October 15, 2014 Author: Bob Herbert From Demos Senior Fellow and longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation...

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Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over

April 29, 2015 Author: Caroline Fredrickson Most Americans think that our country has done quite a lot to protect women and ensure gender equity in the workplace. After all, we have banned...

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SWIPED: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and...

Author: Adam Levin Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam folders, and those are good...

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Next Generation Democracy

November 9, 2010 Author: Jared Duval The challenges of the twenty-first century are of an unprecedented scale. Climate change, financial instability, the housing crisis, the need for health care-all of...

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Tropic Of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

May 1, 2011 Author: Christian ParentiAn investigative journalist’s tough analysis of how some of the world’s most vulnerable states—those with a history of economic and political disasters—are...

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The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society

August 18, 2011 Author: Michael EdwardsIn the past two decades, '"civil society" has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and...

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The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

September 22, 2011 Author: Robert H. Frank Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert...

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Black Tuesday

October 21, 2011 Author: Nomi Prins Leila Khan is a beautiful, enterprising immigrant, struggling to find her purpose in a tumultuous America. Her Wall Street diner job introduces her to banker,...

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