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Bestsellers
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The Small and the Mighty
- Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
- By: Sharon McMahon
- Narrated by: Sharon McMahon
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From America’s favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.
By: Sharon McMahon
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The Art of Power
- My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
- By: Nancy Pelosi
- Narrated by: Nancy Pelosi
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.
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She is a natural at getting her caucus to agree on difficult. Votes
- By Amazon Customer on 08-11-24
By: Nancy Pelosi
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A Return to Common Sense
- How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It
- By: Leigh McGowan
- Narrated by: Leigh McGowan
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A Return to Common Sense is a concise, no-nonsense, dare we say fun, guide to how America works and a roadmap to reclaiming a government of, by, and for the people.
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Succinct!
- By Lainey on 09-23-24
By: Leigh McGowan
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Say It Well
- Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience
- By: Terry Szuplat
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Barack Obama’s longest-serving speechwriters reveals the public speaking lessons that will help you become a more confident and compelling communicator and leader.
By: Terry Szuplat
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The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
- By: Martin Gurri
- Narrated by: Tony Messano
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 2014, this updated edition of The Revolt of the Public includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump's improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit and concludes with a speculative look forward....
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New forces break things, but can't replace them
- By Philo on 06-25-19
By: Martin Gurri
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True Gretch
- What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between
- By: Gretchen Whitmer
- Narrated by: Gretchen Whitmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career.
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That's My Governor!!!
- By CMB4062 on 07-13-24
By: Gretchen Whitmer
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The Small and the Mighty
- Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
- By: Sharon McMahon
- Narrated by: Sharon McMahon
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From America’s favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.
By: Sharon McMahon
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The Art of Power
- My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
- By: Nancy Pelosi
- Narrated by: Nancy Pelosi
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.
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She is a natural at getting her caucus to agree on difficult. Votes
- By Amazon Customer on 08-11-24
By: Nancy Pelosi
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A Return to Common Sense
- How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It
- By: Leigh McGowan
- Narrated by: Leigh McGowan
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A Return to Common Sense is a concise, no-nonsense, dare we say fun, guide to how America works and a roadmap to reclaiming a government of, by, and for the people.
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Succinct!
- By Lainey on 09-23-24
By: Leigh McGowan
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Say It Well
- Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience
- By: Terry Szuplat
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Barack Obama’s longest-serving speechwriters reveals the public speaking lessons that will help you become a more confident and compelling communicator and leader.
By: Terry Szuplat
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The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
- By: Martin Gurri
- Narrated by: Tony Messano
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 2014, this updated edition of The Revolt of the Public includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump's improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit and concludes with a speculative look forward....
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New forces break things, but can't replace them
- By Philo on 06-25-19
By: Martin Gurri
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True Gretch
- What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between
- By: Gretchen Whitmer
- Narrated by: Gretchen Whitmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
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From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career.
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That's My Governor!!!
- By CMB4062 on 07-13-24
By: Gretchen Whitmer
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Over Ruled
- The Human Toll of Too Much Law
- By: Neil Gorsuch, Janie Nitze
- Narrated by: Neil Gorsuch, Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it’s worth asking: In our reverence for law, have we gone too far?
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Outstanding
- By Holmes on 08-08-24
By: Neil Gorsuch, and others
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On Tyranny
- Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century....
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History does not repeat, but it does instruct.
- By Darwin8u on 11-19-18
By: Timothy Snyder
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Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- By: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.
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We’d be in a much better position if everyone read this
- By Jeffrey Schwartz on 10-01-23
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On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition)
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times....
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Best book of the decade
- By Chuck on 04-21-22
By: Timothy Snyder
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The Daniel Prayer
- Prayer That Moves Heaven and Changes Nations
- By: Anne Graham Lotz
- Narrated by: Anne Graham Lotz
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Many people today find that their prayers don't work. And like a broken cell phone, DVD player, or TV remote, they throw prayer out as unnecessary clutter in their busy lives....
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My New Favorite Book
- By L. Pacheco on 03-08-18
By: Anne Graham Lotz
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What Happened
- By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history....
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Typical Hillary
- By Randall Shields on 09-18-17
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Democracy or Else
- How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
- By: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor, and others
- Narrated by: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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From your friends at Pod Save America comes a useful guide to saving American democracy just in time for the 2024 election and 2025 insurrection....
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Slightly longer podcast with great guests
- By Gregory Ritter on 07-13-24
By: Jon Favreau, and others
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Small Acts of Courage
- A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Ali Velshi
- Narrated by: Ali Velshi
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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A captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact....
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Incredible book!
- By Sally J Blanchard on 05-11-24
By: Ali Velshi
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The Dying Citizen
- How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is historically rare — and was among America’s most valued ideals for over two centuries....
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From an uneducated reader;
- By wbc on 10-12-21
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Justice
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Michael J. Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well....
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A very worthwhile book
- By Amazon Customer on 11-11-09
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Battle for the American Mind
- Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
- By: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
- Narrated by: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom....
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Academically sound
- By Rick Townsend on 07-21-22
By: Pete Hegseth, and others
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Twilight of Democracy
- The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism....
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Modern Dictators & President who wants to be them
- By AJ on 07-23-20
By: Anne Applebaum
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Love Your Enemies
- How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
- By: Arthur C. Brooks
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In Love Your Enemies, New York Times best-selling author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks shows that treating others with contempt and out-outraging the other side is not a formula for lasting success....
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Superficial strategy that doesn't go deep.
- By Anonymous User on 11-30-19
By: Arthur C. Brooks
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The MAGA Doctrine
- The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future
- By: Charlie Kirk
- Narrated by: Timothy McKean
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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The movement that brought Donald Trump to the White House has better ideas than the old right or the new left. It's time that the rest of America started listening....
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MAGA
- By Matt gray on 03-05-20
By: Charlie Kirk
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
- By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Narrated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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One of the nation's preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics.
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We Are The Leaders We Have Been Waiting For
- By Robin Raine on 09-03-24
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The Certainty Trap
- Why We Need to Question Ourselves More—and How We Can Judge Others Less
- By: Ilana Redstone, Joe Walsh - foreword
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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When we’re in the Certainty Trap, we tend to view people who disagree with us as hateful, ignorant, or just plain stupid. When it comes to heated social and political issues in particular, many of us know this feeling well—a consuming state of righteous indignation and moral outrage.
By: Ilana Redstone, and others
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The Bill of Obligations
- The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
- By: Richard Haass
- Narrated by: Richard Haass
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
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A provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if American democracy is to survive, The Bill of Obligations is a bold call for change....
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Trying His Best to Be Balenced
- By Kindle Customer Frank E. Norman III on 01-28-23
By: Richard Haass
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Rules for Radicals
- A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
- By: Saul D. Alinsky
- Narrated by: Scott Lange
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change....
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Horrifying
- By Doug on 09-27-15
By: Saul D. Alinsky
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How We Show Up
- Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
- By: Mia Birdsong
- Narrated by: Mia Birdsong
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes....
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I wanted to like this book
- By N. Sebastian on 09-17-21
By: Mia Birdsong
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Hit 'Em Where It Hurts
- How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game
- By: Rachel Bitecofer, Aaron Murphy - contributor
- Narrated by: Rachel Bitecofer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can maintain power at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation’s democracy....
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The honesty
- By Sharyl K. on 02-22-24
By: Rachel Bitecofer, and others
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The American Spirit
- Who We Are and What We Stand For
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States, that reminds us of fundamental American principles....
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Our New "OLD MAN ELOQUENT" Rides Again
- By Ray on 04-21-17
By: David McCullough
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Tell Me How It Ends
- An Essay in 40 Questions
- By: Valeria Luiselli
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....
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educate yourself
- By keji kujjo on 10-04-18
By: Valeria Luiselli
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How to Have Impossible Conversations
- A Very Practical Guide
- By: Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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From politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your life with this indispensable guide from a persuasion expert....
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Important Skills Spoiled By Author Opinions
- By Robin on 02-27-20
By: Peter Boghossian, and others
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Them
- Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal
- By: Ben Sasse
- Narrated by: Ben Sasse
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Something is wrong. We all know it. American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil....
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Had much higher hopes
- By Brandon on 11-10-18
By: Ben Sasse