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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans
    • By: Michael A. Cohen, Micah Zenko
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • An eye-opening look at the history of national security fear-mongering in America and how it distracts citizens from the issues that really matter....

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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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    • By: Eric R. Crouse
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-20
    • Language: English
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    • This book examines the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution. Drawing on economic literature, the memoirs of economists and politicians, and the popular press, Eric Crouse examines how economic decline in the 1970s precipitated a political revolution....

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    • Reclaiming Social Issues from Uncivil Servants
    • By: Laura Carno
    • Narrated by: Linda Bruno
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Government Ruins Nearly Everything helps you remember who's the boss and who's the public servant, and gives you tools to reclaim what was yours all along....

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    • Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality
    • By: Joe Soss, Jacob S. Hacker, Suzanne Mettler
    • Narrated by: Alby Heredia
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Empirically grounded and theoretically informed, Remaking America connects the dots to provide insight into the remarkable social and political changes of the last three decades....

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    • How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy
    • By: Ryan Meili
    • Narrated by: Ryan Meili
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-23
    • Language: English
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    • A Healthy Society offers a new approach to politics–and a new approach to building a healthier world. Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores fundamental conditions that lead to poor health....

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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: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 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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    • A Collection of Thoughts and Ideas Regarding the Fall of Western Society
    • By: Timothy Tompkins
    • Narrated by: Jeff Blair
    • Length: 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A collection of ideas and thoughts about the decline of western society....

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    • My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor
    • By: LeRoy Chatfield, Jorge Mariscal - contributor
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten....

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    • Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
    • By: Melissa Fay Greene
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age 24 by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, who was turned down by every service dog agency....

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    • 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
    • By: Camilla Cavendish
    • Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The Western world is undergoing a dramatic demographic shift. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 65 and over will outnumber children aged five and under. But our systems are lagging woefully behind this new reality....

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    • By: Ray Bradbury
    • Narrated by: William Coon
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Mad! Impossible world! Sun-blasted by day, cold-wracked by night - and life condensed by radiation into eight days....

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    • By: Judy Ryan
    • Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • In July 2016, inner-city resident Judy Ryan found a young man—one of ‘her regulars'—slumped and quiet at her gate. He had overdosed from heroin. Fortunately, that man lived. But Judy had reached breaking point....

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    • Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
    • By: Tony Platt
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the US, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future....

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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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