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How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies

The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices’ partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law. For legal scholar Aaron Tang, however, partisanship is not the Court’s root problem. Overconfidence...

"A provocative firsthand account of how Chief Justice John Roberts posed as a fair-minded jurist in order to impose the reactionary agenda of billionaire elites committed to reversing Americans' freedoms In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined anti-corruption measures, encouraged extreme political gerrymandering, restricted the regulation of guns, and obliterated the constitutional right to control...

A Barnes & Noble Best History Book of 2025

Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. "A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many?" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)
On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful...

A seemingly divine premonition leads Norwegian sisters Kari and May to buy an apartment in the small Swedish town of Gullspång. To their surprise, the seller looks remarkably similar to their older sister Astrid, who committed suicide thirty years earlier. What’s even more odd is that this doppelgänger used to go by “Lita,” the same nickname as their deceased sister.What begins as an eerie story of destiny, faith and improbable coincidence...

How an online network known as Terrorgram spread extremism and violence. With ProPublica, tracing the rise of a global community of white supremacists and the anonymous, loosely moderated platforms used to spread hate and promote terror attacks. From FRONTLINE.

FIRE IN THE HEARTLAND: THE KENT STATE STORY documents the historic 1970 uprising of students at Kent State University, which ended in an unprecedented assault by the National Guard that resulted in four deaths, told by those who experienced it and were leading the charge in the 1960s and 1970s against racism, state violence, and the Vietnam War.

"A concise yet century-spanning exploration of the power of platforms, what the future of capitalism will look like, and how to build economies that provide equality and lasting prosperity"-- Provided by publisher.