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    • Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities....

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    • By: Jesse Ventura, Jen Hobbs
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Any way you look at it, for whoever is using it, marijuana is a medicinal plant in abundant supply. Every month and every year that goes by, we find out more positive things about it....

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    • An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
    • By: Wendell Potter
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare....

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    • Policymaking by Other Means
    • By: Pamela Herd, Donald P. Moynihan
    • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Administrative Burden, Herd and Moynihan document that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with the state are not simply unintended byproducts of governance, but the result of deliberate policy choices....

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    • How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them....

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    • The Big Business of Dope in the US and Mexico
    • By: Beto O'Rourke, Susie Byrd
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross, Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The War on Drugs doesn't work. This became obvious to El Paso City Representatives Susie Byrd and Beto O'Rourke when they started to ask questions about why El Paso's sister city, Ciudad Juarez, has become the deadliest city in the world....

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    • Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs
    • By: Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes, Jorge Enrique Botero
    • Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The crash of a U.S. reconnaissance plane into the Colombian jungle set off a series of events that would bring three South American countries on a collision course toward war....

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    • By: Gene Sperling
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • When Gene Sperling was in charge of coordinating economic policy in the Obama White House, he found himself surprised when serious people in Washington told him that the Obama focus on healthcare was a distraction because it was “not focused on the economy"....

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    • Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
    • By: Jennifer M. Silva
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In We're Still Here, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration....

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    • By: Maggie Paxson
    • Narrated by: Maggie Paxson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why? Listen to find out....

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    • Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
    • By: Peter Temin
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor....

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    • Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies
    • By: Scott Yenor
    • Narrated by: Nick Stevens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Recovery of Family Life defends marriage and family life while exposing the limits and blind spots in these powerful revolutionary ideologies....

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    • The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community
    • By: Justin Ling
    • Narrated by: Justin Ling
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • This extraordinary book tells the complete story of the McArthur murders. Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting, this is also a story of police failure, of how the queer community responded, and the story of the eight men who went missing and the lives they left behind....

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    • Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
    • By: Aaron Glantz
    • Narrated by: David Stampone
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Here, freelance writer Aaron Glantz hones in on the momentous impact of the Iraq war on injured veterans as they return home....

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    • Insights from a Personal Expedition to Inspire Better Public Participation
    • By: Becky Hirst, Dr. Wendy Sarkissian
    • Narrated by: Linda Quinn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • To have a thriving society, we need people and communities who are actively involved in civic life. For politicians, public servants, corporations, or planners to engage with communities in any positive way, they need to learn a new way of doing things....

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    • The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving
    • By: Jody Gastfriend, Patrick J. Kennedy - foreword
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A guide to caring for aging and ailing family members, which offers expert advice, illuminating vignettes, and a compassionate approach to building constructive, mutually gratifying relationships....

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    • The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right
    • By: Becca Andrews
    • Narrated by: Marisha Tapera, Becca Andrews
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An in-depth look at the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and on-the-ground reporting from the front lines of the battle to protect the right to choose....

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    • By: Lucia Kay McBath, Rosemarie Robotham - contributor
    • Narrated by: Lucia Kay McBath
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and leading gun violence prevention advocate comes the riveting memoir of a mother’s loss and call to action, as well as a faith-based exploration of how the nation’s gun laws put a deadly target on American lives....

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    • Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection
    • By: Medea Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Margy Stein
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Medea Benjamin researches the sinister nature of the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia. In seven succinct chapters followed by a meditation on prospects for change, Benjamin shines a light on one of the most perplexing elements of American foreign policy....

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