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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent, topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025, with everything you need to know about how the second Trump administration is remaking America—from a go-to authority at The Atlantic When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, news...

Narrated by John Kennedy himself, this audiobook of “America’s most quotable Senator” offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens. How to Test Negative for Stupid offers the...

The good news is that we we can end our self-destruction, and achieve the peace, prosperity, security, liberty and justice...for all...that our founders only dreamed of. As soon as we stop fighting each other, figure out who's got us fighting, and realize that the law is, believe it or not, on our side.

The only debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter was held in Cleveland, Ohio on October 28, 1980, just days before the election on November 4, 1980. The debate, broadcast live on radio and television, was one of the most-watched presidential debates. Questions by four journalists focused on the following topics: U.S. armed forces, the nation’s economy, urban policies, international terrorism, strategic arms limitation, energy, social security, each candidate’ s assessment of his opponent, and closing statements.

This program is read by the author. Taiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book. When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it...

Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation to itself. As renowned media scholar Sarah J. Jackson charts in this bold and daring masterwork, at the center of this effort has...

The American university―one of the most successful institutions in human history―is facing an unprecedented assault from the president of the US. Experts on authoritarianism have drawn comparisons to other countries where strongmen subdued universities as part of their power grabs. Yet as former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger points out in his account of the university's significance, in such dire times one has no choice but to state clearly and forcefully what one stands for.

Rigorously empirical and rich in historical insight, The Sentinel State is a singular contribution to our knowledge about Chinese state coercion and, more generally, the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes.

Democratic politics is expensive. In US presidential elections, for instance, total spending now exceeds $6.5 billion. In the US, election campaigns are largely funded by private donations from individuals and corporate entities, whereas in Germany, the state is the main funder of electoral politics through subventions to parties. In some other countries, parties have been able to raise most of what they need internally by charging membership dues or, more exceptionally, by relying on a wealthy patron.

From one of the most influential officeholders in Texas and one of the most influential power brokers in Washington over the last 70 years, lifetime Democrat Ben Barnes, an intimate and unexpected look behind the corridors of power, featuring Barnes’s experiences with LBJ, Nixon, Jimmy Carter...

Scholars and citizens have often assumed that dispassionate rationality, reciprocity, and nonviolent tolerance are necessary conditions for the sustained development of democracy. Accordingly, they reject oppositional parties that spurn consensus and terms of mutual respect—and often use force to accomplish their political goals—denouncing extremists as antidemocratic.

As the Minnesota Senate Majority Leader, Paul Gazelka had an unparalleled vantage point on Governor Tim Walz's leadership failures. In Behind the Veil, Gazelka exposes the critical missteps of Walz's tenure, from the faltering response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the chaotic handling of the George Floyd riots to the troubled management of the state budget. This compelling political memoir offers a candid look at Gazelka's daily struggles with Walz's leadership and sheds light on the broader implications for our political landscape.

After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, accessible volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens.

By focusing on the role of perceptions and US expectations in fueling the shift towards competition and rivalry in the last decade, Shambaugh provides a unique new perspective on this critical global relationship.

The development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West. Strategy in Russia encompasses the broader context of foreign and domestic policy as well as the military's ties to the country's leadership. The military's strategic thought is closely linked to Russia's existence as a state and explains patterns of Russian confrontation.

Compelling and incisive, Autocracy 2.0 is a must-listen for anyone seeking to understand China's meteoric rise and how today's autocrats are reshaping the technological frontier, governance, and the global balance of power.

Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land's people and places; he speaks the local dialect. But nothing prepared him for what he encountered there in December 2024. This is his unforgettable, unbearably intimate account of one month in a place shattered by Israel's all-out war.

Amerika im Krieg & Der Gemini-Faktor von Jesús Cediel ist ein scharfsinniger, provokativer Essay über die Krise, die sich in den Vereinigten Staaten entfaltet–und ihre weltweiten Auswirkungen. Seine zentrale These ist klar: Amerika tritt in eine historische Phase ein, die immer wieder den Beginn von Revolutionen, Bürgerkriegen und globalen Umbrüchen markiert hat.

The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean - for themselves, for their neighbours, and for their society. O'Toole and McBride each argue the case for and against unity, questioning received wisdom and bringing fresh thinking to one of Ireland's most intractable questions.