The Land of Flickering Lights: Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics

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Why Congress

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Beyond the Great Divide: How A Nation Became A Neighborhood

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How Did We Get Here?: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump

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The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes

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The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics

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Thank You For Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

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Summary of Heather Cox Richardson's Democracy Awakening

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Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East

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Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government

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Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America

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Crossing the Aisle: How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the Twenty-First Century and Could Save America

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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

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Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today

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Deadly Force: A Police Shooting and My Family's Search for the Truth

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How America Moved On In The Days After The Civil War

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The Dean: The Best Seat in the House

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Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House

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The Book of Joe: The Life, Wit, and (Sometimes Accidental) Wisdom of Joe Biden

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Andrew Jackson: The truth about Andrew Jackson’s life and success principles revealed

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Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black

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Frank McCourt: 'Tis

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The Complete Abraham Lincoln American President

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Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

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The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

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From Annals of the Former World

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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.

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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

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Grounded: A Senator’s Lessons on Winning Back Rural America

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Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa

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Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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The 48 Laws of Power

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Nazi Hunting: A Love Story: The husband and wife who, for six decades and counting, have made catching war criminals the family business

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Enough

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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The Overstory

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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Out of the Wreckage

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While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America

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Elon Musk

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White Fragility (Adapted for Young Adults): Why Understanding Racism Can Be So Hard for White People (Adapted for Young Adults)

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Behold a Pale Horse

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

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The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out)

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

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You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together

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The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

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“The Shadow Docket” with Steve Vladeck: The Supreme Court has long had incredible authority to make decisions that affect millions of Americans. But in recent years, it has increasingly used its power to make stealth emergency decisions without public hearings or explanations. The cases that we often hear about on the high court’s so-called merits docket only represent about one percent of what the court decides. Since the mid-2010s, 99 percent of SCOTUS rulings, including ones increasingly related to consequential issues like abortion, immigration and COVID restrictions, have taken place on what some legal scholars have taken to calling “the shadow docket.” What does this obscure procedure mean for each of us? Steve Vladeck is the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at The University of Texas School of Law. He’s also author of a new book, “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.” He joins WITHpod to discuss how w

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US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till: The brutal murder of black teenager Emmett Till appalled America, and added fuel to the fledgling civil rights movement. Experts Devery Anderson and Adriane Lentz-Smith revisit the event

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The Shadow Docket Debate: Experts explore the current debate surrounding the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket.”

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The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy with Robert P. Jones

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How to Stop A Civil War: Jeffrey Goldberg, Danielle Allen, and Adam Serwer discuss how America is coming apart—and how they think it can be reunited.

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The First Women to Report Jeffrey Epstein

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The Conservative Movement with Corey Robin

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167. The Economic Cost of Racism with Heather McGhee: In this episode, Sharon is joined by economic policy expert and author Heather McGhee.

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Ep. 1791 Walter Williams, Hero of Liberty, RIP: Walter Williams, the brilliant economist and syndicated columnist, died this week. With Thomas Sowell he hammered away for decades against the myths about race and economics peddled by the mainstream and by alleged civil-rights organizations. He had...

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‘The Invisible Child’ with Andrea Elliott: Life has been anything but easy for 20-year-old Dasani Coates. Named after the bottled water that signaled Brooklyn’s gentrification, her story has been featured in five front pages of the New York Times. Together with her siblings, Dasani has had to persevere in an environment riddled with stark inequality, hunger, violence, drug addiction and homelessness. She’s not alone. There’s nearly 1.38 million homeless schoolchildren in the United States. About one in 12 live in New York City. We often focus on the stories of children who “make it out” of tumultuous environments. But what about the ones who don’t? New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot spent nearly a decade following Dasani and her family. Andrea joins to talk about her expanded coverage of the Coates’ family story, which is told in her new book, “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope In An American City.”

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American Whitelash: Wesley Lowery on the cost of progress in an increasingly multiracial America: EPISODE 1565: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Wesley Lowery, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author of AMERICAN WHITELASH, about the cost of progress in an increasingly multiracial America

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Birthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?: For a long time, the story about the world’s population was that it was growing too quickly. There were going to be too many humans, not enough resources, and that spelled disaster. But now the script has flipped. Fertility rates have declined dramatically, from about five children per woman 60 years ago to just over two today. About two-thirds of us now live in a country or area where fertility rates are below replacement level. And that has set off a new round of alarm, especially in certain quarters on the right and in Silicon Valley, that we’re headed toward demographic catastrophe. But when I look at these numbers, I just find it strange. Why, as societies get richer, do their fertility rates plummet? Money makes life easier. We can give our kids better lives than our ancestors could have imagined. We don’t expect to bear the grief of burying a child. For a long time, a big, boisterous family has been associated with a joyful, fulfilled

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Kevin McCarthy’s Job Is Going to Be Miserable: In recent weeks, America got a preview of how the new Republican House majority would wield its power. In attempting to perform a basic function of government — electing a speaker — a coalition of 20 House members caused Kevin McCarthy to lose 14 rounds of votes, decreasing his power with each compromise and successive vote. This is not normal. Party unity ebbs and flows, but the G.O.P. in recent decades has come apart at the seams. Nicole Hemmer is the director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, an associate professor of history and the author of two books about the conservative movement and media ecosystem, “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics” and “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.” And she says we can’t understand the current G.O.P. without understanding when, where a

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How America’s Two Abortion Realities Are Clashing: When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it scrambled the landscape of abortion access in America, including in ways that one might not entirely expect. Many conservative states made the procedure essentially illegal — that part was predictable. But there’s also been this striking backlash in blue states, with many of them making historic efforts to expand abortion access, for both their residents and for women living in abortion-restricted states. And this has created all kinds of new battle lines — between states, and states and the federal government — involving travel, speech, privacy and executive power. It’s an explosion of conflicts and constitutional questions that the legal historian Mary Ziegler says has no parallel in modern times. She’s the author of six books on reproductive rights in America, including “Roe: The History of a National Obsession,” and the Martin Luther King Jr. professor of law at the University of C

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How Civil Wars Start with Barbara F. Walter: Host Reed Galen is joined by Barbara F. Walter, one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism who is an Author and Professor of International Affairs at UC San Diego. They discuss what sorts of societal/political...

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Tyranny of the Minority with Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt: American Democracy has faced some challenging times, living through a modern day political crisis.

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The Shadow Docket: Stephen Vladeck on how the Supreme Court is using stealth rulings to undermine the American Republic: EPISODE 1497: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Stephen Vladeck, the author of THE SHADOW DOCKET, about how the Supreme Court is using stealth rulings to amass power and undermine the American Republic

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140: Heather Cox Richardson

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BFFs: The Best of Kara and Scott 2021

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The Middle East with Dexter Filkins

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How the U.S.-China Trade War Hurts the Rest of the World

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Private Equity’s Impact on the Economy — with Gretchen Morgenson

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Amy Klobuchar on 'Antitrust': The senator discusses her new book about fighting monopoly power, and Andrew Solomon talks about Katie Booth’s “The Invention of Miracles.”

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Beth Macy on 'Dopesick'

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What a Second Biden Term Would Look Like: President Biden gave a raucous State of the Union speech last Thursday, offering his pitch for why he should be president for a second term. It’s the clearest picture we have yet of Biden’s campaign message for 2024. But while he listed off all kinds of proposals, it’s not as easy to parse what a second Biden term might actually look like. So I sat down with my editor Aaron Retica, who had a lot of questions for me about the speech itself and what Biden would be likely to accomplish if he got another four years in the job. We discuss how my argument for Biden to step aside holds up after he gave such a deft, high-energy performance; what a second Biden administration would likely do when it comes to abortion rights and foreign policy; the issues that didn’t receive much attention in the speech but would likely play a huge role in a second Biden term; the strongest 2024 campaign message that I’ve heard so far; and whether this is a Locke electi

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Ned Blackhawk on ‘The Rediscovery of America’: In this conversation first recorded for Washington Post Live on April 27, Yale University professor Ned Blackhawk discusses his new book, “The Rediscovery of America: Natives Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History,” which explores the foundational role Native Americans have played in U.S. history, including in the formulation of our country’s Constitution, and how their presence and contributions are frequently overlooked, or worse, erased.

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American Socialist (2021)

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The Zealot and the Emancipator with H.W. Brands: Host Reed Galen is joined by Dr. H.W. Brands (Professor of History and Bestselling Author) to discuss the vastly different approaches John Brown and Abraham Lincoln took to confront the issue of slavery in their time and what parallels we can draw to...

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How to End Zero-Sum Thinking (Heather McGhee)

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NPR Traces California Yoga Teacher's Alleged Path To The Capitol Riot: Alan Hostetter became known for protesting pandemic lockdowns in California. He's now facing conspiracy charges for his alleged role in the U.S. Capitol riot.