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Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn, "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
48 mins; November 05, 2025
Linda Upham-Bornstein, "'Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender': Taxpayers’ Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression" (Temple UP, 2023)
45 mins; November 02, 2025
Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025)
25 mins; November 01, 2025
Rob Wells, "The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
23 mins; October 31, 2025
Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else" (Columbia UP, 2025)
62 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2025
Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
42 mins; October 28, 2025
Patrick Parr, "Malcolm Before X" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
26 mins; October 26, 2025
Matthew D. Nelsen, "The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; October 23, 2025
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
60 hours 9 mins; October 19, 2025
Andrea Freeman, "Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: America’s Politics of Food, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
60 hours 44 mins; October 17, 2025
Rehan Abeyratne, "Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 17 mins; October 16, 2025
Naomi R. Williams, "A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 12, 2025
Naomi R. Williams, "A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 12, 2025
Melissa M. Matthes, "When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter" (Harvard UP, 2021)
67 hours 46 mins; October 11, 2025
Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
86 hours 39 mins; October 10, 2025
Clay Risen, "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
69 hours 37 mins; October 08, 2025
Marion Orr, "House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr." (UNC Press, 2025)
59 mins; October 06, 2025
Jill Elaine Hasday, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
24 mins; October 05, 2025
Raymond J. McKoski, "David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
57 mins; October 03, 2025
Madison Schramm, "Why Democracies Fight Dictators" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; October 03, 2025
Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail" (Heresy Press, 2025)
52 mins; October 02, 2025
Sasha Davis, "Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
28 mins; October 01, 2025
Ecodefense: Dave Foreman and Earth First!’s Deep Ecology
59 mins; September 25, 2025
Authoritarian Ideas, Old and New: From Schmitt to “JD”
79 hours 14 mins; September 24, 2025
Edward Fishman, "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare" (Portfolio, 2025)
60 hours 18 mins; September 23, 2025
Nicholas Bromell, "The Time is Always Now: Black Political Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2013)
60 hours 48 mins; September 23, 2025
Tim Weiner, "The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century" (Mariner Books, 2025)
51 mins; September 22, 2025
Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, "Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln" (Reedy Press, 2025)
38 mins; September 20, 2025
Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis, "Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils of Presidentialism" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
61 hours 30 mins; September 20, 2025
Sarah Schulman, "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity" (Penguin, 2025)
49 mins; September 19, 2025
Rebecca Nagle, "By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" (Harper, 2024)
39 mins; September 17, 2025
Michael Poznansky, "Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
32 mins; September 16, 2025
Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; September 16, 2025
Peter Sparding, "No Better Friend? The United States and Germany Since 1945" (Hurst, 2024)
53 mins; September 12, 2025
Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, "Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
66 hours 57 mins; September 11, 2025
Ariel Colonomos, "Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement" (Oxford UP, 2023)
44 mins; September 09, 2025
Is the U.S. helping speed up its own decline? with Damon Linker
67 hours 49 mins; September 08, 2025
Sarah McLaughlin, "Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
41 mins; September 07, 2025
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump" (Random House, 2025)
65 hours 57 mins; September 06, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 31 mins; September 01, 2025
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865-1965" (Oxford UP, 2025)
77 hours 16 mins; September 01, 2025
Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
53 mins; August 29, 2025
The end of aid? US, China, and the future of development
52 mins; August 28, 2025
Russell T. McCutcheon, "Religion and the Domestication of Dissent: Or, How to Live in a Less Than Perfect Nation" (Routledge, 2025)
67 hours 49 mins; August 28, 2025
Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
42 mins; August 27, 2025
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
65 hours 45 mins; August 26, 2025
Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic" (Anthem Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 25, 2025
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)
48 mins; August 24, 2025
K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)
67 hours 42 mins; August 23, 2025
Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)
60 hours 33 mins; August 23, 2025
Citizenship Stripping: You Are Not American
54 mins; August 21, 2025
Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, "Racial Resentment in the Political Mind" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
55 mins; August 18, 2025
Michael Hiltzik, "Golden State: The Making of California" (Mariner, 2025)
40 mins; August 16, 2025
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; August 14, 2025
James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025)
52 mins; August 14, 2025
Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
43 mins; August 12, 2025
Jacob F. H. Smith, "Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
22 mins; August 11, 2025
Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025)
100 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2025
Ryan Griffiths, "The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work" (Oxford UP, 2025)
63 hours 52 mins; August 11, 2025
Terri Diane Halperin, “The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
58 mins; August 09, 2025
Russell Shorto, “Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom” (Norton, 2017)
63 hours 24 mins; August 08, 2025
Robert Fitzgerald, "Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency" (UNC Press, 2025)
65 hours 43 mins; August 07, 2025
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
78 hours 25 mins; August 06, 2025
Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
75 hours 17 mins; August 05, 2025
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
53 mins; August 04, 2025
Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
43 mins; August 03, 2025
Linda Gordon, "Seven Social Movements That Changed America" (LIveright, 2025)
60 hours 33 mins; August 02, 2025
How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy
33 mins; July 31, 2025
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
67 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2025
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
67 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2025
Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024)
31 mins; July 28, 2025
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; July 25, 2025
Osita Nwanevu, "The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding" (Random House, 2025)
32 mins; July 25, 2025
Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election Of 1968" (Yale UP, 2024)
66 hours 55 mins; July 22, 2025
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
56 mins; July 21, 2025
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
81 hours 53 mins; July 20, 2025
Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
63 hours 46 mins; July 20, 2025
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 19, 2025
Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
31 mins; July 16, 2025
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; July 14, 2025
Aggie Hirst, "Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military" (Oxford UP, 2024)
51 mins; July 13, 2025
On Bullshit in Politics
33 mins; July 12, 2025
Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
54 mins; July 11, 2025
Dennard Dayle, "How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel" (Henry Holt, 2025)
63 hours 30 mins; July 06, 2025
Andrew Hartman, "Karl Marx in America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
50 mins; July 05, 2025
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
55 mins; July 04, 2025
Secrets of the Killing State
73 hours 40 mins; July 03, 2025
The attack on democracy in the United States, and the new resistance
37 mins; July 03, 2025
Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)
58 mins; July 02, 2025
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)
40 mins; July 02, 2025
Eric Blanc, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 29, 2025
Ross A. Kennedy, "The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
87 hours 0 mins; June 28, 2025
Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
58 mins; June 27, 2025
Louis P. Masur, "A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2025)
38 mins; June 26, 2025
Philip Kadish, "The Great White Hoax: Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America"
71 hours 14 mins; June 24, 2025
Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
30 mins; June 23, 2025
Kevin J. Hayes, "Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin" (Oxford UP, 2025)
40 mins; June 23, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "The Diplomacy of DĂ©tente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz" (Routledge, 2018)
48 mins; June 21, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
44 mins; June 20, 2025
A Book Imprint from The Nation Magazine Launches with Bhaskar Sunkara and Colin Robinson
40 mins; June 20, 2025
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