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    • Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
    • By: Jessica Pryce
    • Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families....

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    • Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
    • By: Richard Hanania
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Richard Hanania has emerged as one of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down....

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    • The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion
    • By: Diana Greene Foster PhD
    • Narrated by: Samantha Desz, full cast
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away? To answer this question, Diana Greene Foster assembled a team of scientists....

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    • How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
    • By: Jason L. Riley
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125 ratings
    • Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....

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    • America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
    • By: Alisa Roth
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker....

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    • Children in America's Schools
    • By: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrated by: Mark Winston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....

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    • Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
    • By: Toni Natalie, Chet Hardin
    • Narrated by: Toni Natalie
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology....

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    • A New History
    • By: Amity Shlaes
    • Narrated by: Terence Aselford
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 375 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....

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    • The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
    • By: Mary Otto
    • Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....

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    • Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
    • By: Charles Koch, Brian Hooks
    • Narrated by: Charles Koch, Steve Carlson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the job. Crumbling communities. One-size fits all education....

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    • Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
    • By: John Hope Bryant
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....

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    • Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 675 ratings
    • In this critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and more....

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    • Rebooting American Health Care
    • By: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
    • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform....

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    • Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
    • By: Rupa Marya, Raj Patel
    • Narrated by: Raj Patel, Rupa Marya
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Raj Patel, the New York Times best-selling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices....

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    • How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
    • By: Alicia Garza
    • Narrated by: Alicia Garza
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....

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    • By: Spencer Bishins
    • Narrated by: Spencer Bishins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it’s so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an attorney advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions....

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
    • By: Bhaskar Sunkara
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 463 ratings
    • From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....

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