検索キーワード： 自由・安全

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...

In Racist by Design, award-winning historian Kelly Lytle Hernández reveals how generations of lawmakers and law enforcers built the American immigration system to encourage white immigrants while targeting nonwhite migrants for exclusion, punishment, and removal. The goal, often explicitly...

There is no more urgent question in global affairs today: Can the United States and China find a way to coexist—or are they on a collision course that threatens the entire planet? In Darwin’s Lock, Joshua Cooper Ramo offers a brilliant new analysis of the most important geopolitical...

Dive deeper into the authoritarian leaders of yesterday and take practical steps today toward a better democratic society tomorrow, with past and present examples from around the world. How do democracies die? We’re watching it happen in real time. Elected domestic and international leaders are undermining democratic institutions, weaponizing government agencies, and fueling dangerous polarization. Turn on the news—or scroll social media—and the result is everywhere: fear, anger, and a growing sense of helplessness as citizens wonder, I’m just one person—what can I possibly do?

Exposing why the media refused to tell the whole truth about the anti-police movement. Truth is supposed to be a journalist’s north star. But during the 2010s, the fourth estate lost its way, abandoning reporting for straight-up activism. In Crimes of Omission, seasoned investigative journalist Rob Rosen will reveal the full story of the high-profile cases of law enforcement violence that rocked the world.

In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Emmy Award–winning sound editor Solange Schwalbe entered Ground Zero as a contractor—one of the few women rescue workers deep inside the pit of where the Twin Towers once stood. What she witnessed there would forever reshape her understanding of fear, service, and what it means to endure. This memoir captures the recovery effort from the inside: the relentless search, the quiet rituals of honor, and the untold moments that history never recorded.

A New York Times Bestseller The first woman to serve as United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territory conveys the spirit of a people through ten unforgettable stories of resilience and humanity. Francesca Albanese is the most lucid voice against Israel’s apartheid...

Hailed as the 'first freedom', free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political and cultural history of this idea. Through captivating stories of free speech's many defenders, Mchangama demonstrates how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach knowledge, politics, economics, even warfare. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial...

DEAR MADAM PRESIDENT is an empowering letter from former White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to the first woman president, and by extension, to all women working to succeed in any field. By using lessons learned during her experiences with Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and...

The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain. Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the CIA-led covert action operations team...

When Israeli reservist Nimrod Palmach recorded a goodbye message to his children on October 7, 2023, he had nine bullets and a pistol against an army of Hamas terrorists. What followed became one of the most harrowing firsthand accounts of modern warfare—and an unforgettable testament to courage, love, and survival. Rebel Heart takes listeners inside the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.

Know the difference before the decision matters. Reasonable Suspicion and Probable Cause for Law Enforcement gives officers, recruits, and criminal justice students a plain-English guide to two of the most important legal standards in policing. On the street, every decision must be based on facts that can be explained later: the stop, the search, the seizure, the arrest, the report, and the testimony. This audiobook breaks those decisions down in clear, practical language so officers can understand what the law requires and how to document what they observed.

The dramatic confrontation between civil-rights activism and the establishment power of Lyndon Johnson that transformed the movement and national politics. In August 1964, at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, a Mississippi sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer, challenged Lyndon...

Some people vanished without a trace. Others died under circumstances that never stopped raising questions. In every case, the official story left something behind. The World’s Conspiracy Files: Book 4 investigates twenty famous and lesser-known mysteries involving unexplained disappearances, suspicious deaths, unsolved murders, possible assassinations, criminal cover-ups, secret operations, and historical cases that remain impossible to forget. From D. B.

This startling, intimate portrait of a group of previously unknown Americans offers unprecedented insight into the clandestine world. In a narrative spanning seven decades, award-winning author Toby Harnden reveals the exploits of the thirty-nine recipients of the CIA’s Distinguished...

To recant is to take back a belief in public, under pressure, in front of the people who demanded the reversal. The word carries an older sense underneath the modern one. It comes from the Latin for singing again, and the act it names is a song performed backward, on command, so that the saying can stand in for the truth. In My Mind I'm Standing Up is a history of that act, traced from the Inquisition and the Reformation through the Moscow show trials, the Hollywood blacklist, and the Maoist struggle session, and into the public apology of our own moment.

Do you want to change the world but wonder if there’s any point trying? Are you unsure what you can offer, or don’t feel that you fit the activist mould? Do you think activists can be self-righteous, even oblivious to the very people they’re trying to help? How Not To Save the World is a book about doing good, for anyone who has looked at politics or public discourse and thought, ‘we need better than this.’ The fervour that drives us to change the world can create blind spots, where we don’t see our own behaviour, or disregard it because the cause is urgent.

The arrest is over. The report has been filed. Now comes the moment that can decide whether the case survives. Courtroom testimony places every observation, decision, written sentence, and forgotten detail under a hard light. A confident officer can explain what happened without exaggeration, defensiveness, or confusion. An unprepared officer can allow a sound investigation to fracture under cross-examination—even when the original police work was lawful.

The inspiring memoir of the warrior for women who's defied the Taliban at every turn - doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee LONGLISTED FOR 2024 MOORE PRIZE 'I have three strikes against me. I'm a woman, I speak out for women, and I'm Hazara...