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Bestsellers
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Last Call for Bud Light
- The Fall and Future of America's Favorite Beer
- By: Anson Frericks
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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The astonishing inside story of how Bud Light lost its position as the most popular beer in the United States from a longtime Anheuser-Busch executive.
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The last 4 chapters
- By Rich on 02-20-25
By: Anson Frericks
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq....
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If It's Bad for Humanity, It's Good for Business
- By Nelson Alexander on 09-29-07
By: Naomi Klein
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Truths
- The Future of America First
- By: Vivek Ramaswamy
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Vivek Ramaswamy
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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New York Times bestselling author, accomplished entrepreneur, and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has a plan to save America, and it begins with telling the truth.
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A Modern Day “Common Sense”
- By Daniel Taylor on 09-24-24
By: Vivek Ramaswamy
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The Accidental Superpower
- Ten Years On
- By: Mr. Peter Zeihan
- Narrated by: Mr. Peter Zeihan
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years....
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Only worth it if you don't already own
- By Anonymous User on 12-30-23
By: Mr. Peter Zeihan
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Age of Revolutions
- Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
- By: Fareed Zakaria
- Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live....
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A “Historical”, Neo-Liberal Defense of Biden
- By Timothy on 04-18-24
By: Fareed Zakaria
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Disunited Nations
- The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
- By: Peter Zeihan
- Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....
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brilliant geopolitical primer re the future
- By Howard on 04-11-20
By: Peter Zeihan
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Last Call for Bud Light
- The Fall and Future of America's Favorite Beer
- By: Anson Frericks
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The astonishing inside story of how Bud Light lost its position as the most popular beer in the United States from a longtime Anheuser-Busch executive.
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The last 4 chapters
- By Rich on 02-20-25
By: Anson Frericks
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The Shock Doctrine
- The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Abridged
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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq....
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If It's Bad for Humanity, It's Good for Business
- By Nelson Alexander on 09-29-07
By: Naomi Klein
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Truths
- The Future of America First
- By: Vivek Ramaswamy
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Vivek Ramaswamy
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times bestselling author, accomplished entrepreneur, and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has a plan to save America, and it begins with telling the truth.
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A Modern Day “Common Sense”
- By Daniel Taylor on 09-24-24
By: Vivek Ramaswamy
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The Accidental Superpower
- Ten Years On
- By: Mr. Peter Zeihan
- Narrated by: Mr. Peter Zeihan
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years....
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Only worth it if you don't already own
- By Anonymous User on 12-30-23
By: Mr. Peter Zeihan
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Age of Revolutions
- Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
- By: Fareed Zakaria
- Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live....
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A “Historical”, Neo-Liberal Defense of Biden
- By Timothy on 04-18-24
By: Fareed Zakaria
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Disunited Nations
- The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
- By: Peter Zeihan
- Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....
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brilliant geopolitical primer re the future
- By Howard on 04-11-20
By: Peter Zeihan
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
- Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....
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Injustice anywhere is Injustice everywhere
- By Jarucia Jaycox on 05-05-17
By: Angela Y. Davis
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After the Last Border
- Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
- By: Jessica Goudeau
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the 21st-century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas....
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Great Content. Odd Structure.
- By Susan Stillings on 02-10-21
By: Jessica Goudeau
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Tragedy and Hope 101
- The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy
- By: Joseph Plummer
- Narrated by: Joshua Mackey
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Based on the groundbreaking research of respected historian Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope 101 reveals an unimaginably devious political system, skillfully manipulated by a handful of elite, which is undermining freedom and democracy as we know it....
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This book changed my world view more than other
- By stinsoninc on 12-18-18
By: Joseph Plummer
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The Split
- Finding the Opportunities in China's Economy in the New World Order
- By: Shaun Rein
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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China will soon eclipse the United States as the world's largest economy and companies will lose out if they do not know how to invest in China properly. No company has been able to get into China for 3 years. Shaun Rein hasn't left.
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Beyond the Headlines: Navigating China’s Economic Opportunities
- By Wyss on 12-17-24
By: Shaun Rein
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No Trade Is Free
- Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers
- By: Robert Lighthizer
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it’s too late....
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The ideas that would be applied on tbe 2025 Trump Administration
- By Tomás García on 01-29-25
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Waste Wars
- The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
- By: Alexander Clapp
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, Waste Wars is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade.
By: Alexander Clapp
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Controligarchs
- Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life
- By: Seamus Bruner, Peter Schweizer - foreword
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine a world in which you own nothing and rent everything. Most of the protein in your diet comes from bugs. You are not allowed to have more than one child, and your financial and medical data are instantly transferred to a centralized government database via a subdermal microchip....
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time to act
- By Dan on 11-21-23
By: Seamus Bruner, and others
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Enemy of All Mankind
- A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world....
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Slow
- By Gary V Howell on 06-07-20
By: Steven Johnson
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The Divide
- Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
- By: Jason Hickel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right....
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eye-opening
- By Dumuzi-apsu on 03-05-19
By: Jason Hickel
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life....
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cool title, unexceptional content
- By Andy on 10-10-14
By: Steven Johnson
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You Will Own Nothing
- Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back
- By: Carol Roth
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 11 hrs
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The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothing—and yet you are somehow happy....
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Fantastic book!
- By David on 07-26-23
By: Carol Roth
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The Quest
- Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
- By: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
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In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them....
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Best nonfiction book of 2011
- By Joshua Kim on 05-06-12
By: Daniel Yergin
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Tell Me How It Ends
- An Essay in 40 Questions
- By: Valeria Luiselli
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....
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educate yourself
- By keji kujjo on 10-04-18
By: Valeria Luiselli
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The Outlaw Ocean
- Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
- By: Ian Urbina
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Ian Urbina
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation....
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Subject interesting, but some facts not true
- By Worldoceans on 12-09-19
By: Ian Urbina
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Underground Empire
- How America Weaponized the World Economy
- By: Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems....
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Good summary
- By Medz on 01-28-25
By: Henry Farrell, and others
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration - and explains how to live in it....
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It really is an optimists guide to scary stuff
- By Adam Shields on 12-12-16
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ColdFusion Presents
- New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World
- By: Dagogo Altraide
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Dagogo Altraide of YouTube's ColdFusion breaks down the history of gamechanger breakthroughs in the world of science and technology that have shaped our modern world and will impact the future....
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AMAZING BOOK
- By Faith on 01-21-20
By: Dagogo Altraide
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Canada Alone
- Navigating the Post-American World
- By: Kim Richard Nossal
- Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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The American-led global order has been increasingly challenged by Chinese assertiveness and Russian revanchism. As we enter this new era of great-power competition, Canadians tend to assume that the United States will continue to provide global leadership for the West....
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Planet of Slums
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....
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A little dated ring when was originally published
- By Terence A. Dodge on 07-05-22
By: Mike Davis
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How Will Capitalism End?
- Essays on a Failing System
- By: Wolfgang Streeck
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated....
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Thorough but this is a bit dry
- By We on 08-16-22
By: Wolfgang Streeck
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
- By: Kate Raworth
- Narrated by: Kate Raworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality,....
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Economic romanticizing, not economic thinking
- By LAM X LUU on 04-05-18
By: Kate Raworth
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Getting China Wrong
- By: Aaron L. Friedberg
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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The West's strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been....
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Essential reading
- By Emily Schumann on 12-22-22
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The World
- A Brief Introduction
- By: Richard Haass
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders....
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Excellent Primer for young adults
- By Howells on 05-24-20
By: Richard Haass
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The New Class War
- Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
- By: Michael Lind
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thrown governments into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex....
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Monopoly is good... brought to you by Google
- By David Larson on 01-29-20
By: Michael Lind