Government Reform

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,573 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
    • By: John Taylor Gatto
    • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 824 ratings
    • Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....

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    • By: Rosa Luxemburg
    • Narrated by: Anne Makoto
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Reform or Revolution is an 1899 pamphlet by Polish-German Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg, in which she argues that trade unions, reformist political parties, and the expansion of social democracy could not create a socialist society....

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    • Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Michael Edwards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,610 ratings
    • In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives....

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    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • By: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • A True Story of the Fight for Justice
    • By: Bryan Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 542 ratings
    • In this very personal work, adapted from the original number one best seller, acclaimed lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson offers a glimpse into the lives of the wrongfully imprisoned and his efforts to fight for their freedom....

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    • Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
    • By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system....

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    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • By: Shane Bauer
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044 ratings
    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

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    • By: Richard Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results....

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    • And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
    • By: Victoria Law
    • Narrated by: Melissa Moran
    • Series: Myths Made in America
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals....

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    • One Town's Fight over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
    • By: Mike Hixenbaugh
    • Narrated by: Mike Hixenbaugh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America.

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    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • By: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

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    • Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
    • By: Benjamin Herold
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Herold, Bethany Smith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools....

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    • Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy
    • By: Stephen Moore, Arthur B. Laffer
    • Narrated by: Adam North
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • In Trumponomics, conservative economists Stephen Moore and Arthur B. Laffer offer a well-informed defense of the president's approach to trade, taxes, employment, infrastructure, and other economic policies....

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    • How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
    • By: Ben Shapiro, David Limbaugh - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,466 ratings
    • When parents send their children off to college, Mom and Dad hope they'll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute....

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    • The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
    • By: John F. Pfaff
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country....

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    • By: Fredrik deBoer
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Fredrik deBoer explores American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future.

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    • By: Alex S. Vitale
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 742 ratings
    • This audiobook attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control. It shows how the expansion of police authority is inconsistent with community empowerment, social justice - even public safety....

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    • Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
    • By: Bryan Caplan
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 708 ratings
    • Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated....

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