Books
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The Richer Sex
How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
Bestselling journalist Liza Mundy’s smart, deeply reported analysis of the most important cultural shift since the rise of feminism: the coming era... -
The Escape Artists
Noam ScheiberA star White House journalist provides a gripping look inside the meeting rooms, the in-boxes, and the super-sharp minds of the pedigreed propeller... -
Manana Forever?
Jorge G. CastañedaWhy are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans lov... -
Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
Robert W. McChesney Victor PickardThe sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackli... -
Pakistan: A Hard Country
Anatol LievenThe gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. Anatol Lieven, who has reported on Pakistan off and on for 20 years, ... -
Getting Better
Why Global Development Is Succeeding — And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Charles KennyAs the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe ... -
Taxing the Poor
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
Katherine S Newman Rourke O'BrienThis book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to incom... -
Fighting for Darfur
Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide
Rebecca HamiltonAround the world, millions of people have added their voices to protest marches and demonstrations because they believe that, together, they can ma... -
The Longest War
The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda
Ten years have passed since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Ira... -
The Net Delusion
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Evgeny Morozov“The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the... -
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
According to Columbia professor and policy advocate Tim Wu, the great information empires of the 20th century have followed a clear and distinctive... -
The Tenth Parallel
Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Eliza GriswoldThe tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity an... -
California Crackup
How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
Joe Mathews Mark PaulIs California beyond repair? A sizable number of Golden State citizens have concluded that it is. Incessant budget crises plus a government paralyz... -
The Icarus Syndrome
A History of American Hubris
In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks -- a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on... -
Cornered
The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Regular Harpers and Financial Times contributor Barry C. Lynn paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, ... -
The Hawk and the Dove
Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
Nicholas ThompsonOnly two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies... -
The Evolution of God
In The Evolution of God, award-winning and bestselling author Robert Wright takes us on a sweeping journey through history, unveiling a discovery o... -
To Live or to Perish Forever
Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
Nicholas SchmidleIn To Live or to Perish Forever Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistan's rioting streets, to Taliban camps in the North-West Frontier Province... -
The House at the End of the Road
The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
W. Ralph EubanksIn 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman nam... -
The Next Progressive Era
A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity
Phillip Longman Ray BosharaThe Next Progressive Era provides a blueprint for a re-empowered progressive movement and describes its implications for American families, work, h... -
A Tolerable Anarchy
Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom
Jedediah PurdyFreedom is at the heart of the American identity, shaping both personal lives and political values. The ideal of authoring one's own life has inspi... -
Grand New Party
How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
Reihan Salam Ross Douthat (Atlantic Monthly)Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building the next Republican majority. ...