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    • 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster
    • By: Alex Zamalin
    • Narrated by: Chris Baetens
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-22
    • Language: English
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    • An uplifting look at how organizers in the past have successfully leveraged crises into emancipatory politics, and a plea for continued progressive movement building in our tumultuous social climate....

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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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    • By: James Angelos
    • Narrated by: Peter Cross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-15
    • Language: English
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    • In The Full Catastrophe, James Angelos makes sense of the contrasting images of Greece, a nation both romanticized for its classical past and castigated for its dysfunctional present....

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    • Passionately Pragmatic Solutions For: Health Care, Taxes, Electoral Reform and More of America’s Problems
    • By: M. Scott Flood
    • Narrated by: Ben Sheedy
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • There was a time in this country when people who were well-off had two homes, and the super-rich may have had three residences. In 2008 a prominent politician was asked how many homes he had. He didn’t know. The number was eight....

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    • Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice
    • By: Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Tahira Rehmatullah
    • Narrated by: Julienne Irons
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • From the start, the War on Drugs targeted Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system stacked against them. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah issue a powerful call for a racial reckoning and provide a roadmap to redress this deep and abiding injustice....

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    • How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair
    • By: Carol Graham
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this timely and innovative account, economist Carol Graham argues for the importance of hope—little studied in economics at present—as an independent dimension of well-being....

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    • Departing the Consumer Culture
    • By: Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
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    • The authors invite you on a journey of departure from our consumer market culture. Discover an alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable....

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    • The First 100 Days and Beyond of the Biden Administration
    • By: Thomas Winterbottom
    • Narrated by: Mike Stedham
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-21
    • Language: English
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    • This book discusses the actions that the Biden administration should take to provide America and the world with the best leadership....

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    • How Workplace Savings Can Keep America's Promise
    • By: Robert L. Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
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    • At a time of fierce political divisiveness, From Here to Security is a refreshingly balanced, non-ideological guide to solving what may be our nation's most pressing policy challenge: achieving retirement security for all....

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    • Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
    • By: Marco Rubio
    • Narrated by: Ricardo Suri
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • In this book, you'll meet an over-regulated small-businessman, a struggling single mother, an out-of-work and in-debt college graduate, and others who want nothing more....

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    • Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
    • By: John D. Graham
    • Narrated by: Randall R. Berner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-17
    • Language: English
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    • The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation's 240-year history, is of special interest....

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    • Using Brain Science to Create a More Just Nation
    • By: Dan Meegan
    • Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What makes a person liberal or conservative? Why does the Democratic Party scare off so many possible supporters? When does our "injustice trigger" get pulled, and how can fairness overcome our human need to look for a zero-sum outcome to our political battles? Find out....

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    • The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America
    • By: Jack Shuler
    • Narrated by: Miles Meili
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Tainted drug supplies, inadequate civic responses, and prevailing negative opinions about people who use drugs, the poor, and those struggling with mental health issues lead to thousands of preventable deaths each year while politicians are slow to adopt effective policies....

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    • A Report from the Institute for Policy Studies, the Transnational Institute, and Focus on the Global South
    • By: John Feffer
    • Narrated by: John Feffer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • This report by John Feffer from the frontlines of global policy stands in stark contrast to the reality in the world today. Listening to it amounts to a return to sanity and humane governance, and illuminates the way forward that is still possible if we begin soon....

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    • How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World
    • By: Andrew Leigh
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Social scientists have adopted the practices of more traditional scientists - using randomized trials to design policies aimed at improving education, lowering crime, elevating employment, and improving living standards. The authors bring the lives of these radical researchers to life....

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    • Securing America from Mass Shootings
    • By: Louis Klarevas
    • Narrated by: Christopher Price
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting....

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    • The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration
    • By: Jorja Leap
    • Narrated by: Sonia Kallen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Urgent and empathetic, Entry Lessons is one of the first examinations of the lasting impact of incarceration on women and their families....

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