America Problem

In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power—a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly...

Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm. In fact, most white evangelicals see no systematic discrimination against blacks. But the authors contend that it is not active racism.

On the eve of America’s 250th anniversary comes a groundbreaking history of patriotism and the question of how to love a country. “Erdozain writes with a poet’s concision but a maximalist’s zeal, leaving no room in his historical account for any doubt that American exceptionalism has...

Instant New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year An Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year ""Brave and absorbing."" -- New York Times “Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in...

America has never had more access to information. That has not made us wiser. In The Problem with Critical Thinking in America, Julian Mercer examines how a country surrounded by news, data, commentary, social media, podcasts, viral clips, expert opinions, and endless online “research” became so vulnerable to bad arguments, conspiracy thinking, manufactured outrage, political manipulation, and confident nonsense. This is not a book about Americans being stupid. It is a book about systems that reward shallow thinking. Schools teach answers more than judgment. Algorithms reward engagement...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER ‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making’ PHILIP...

This classic collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington and with contributions from many of post-Civil War America's other prominent African-American thinkers, sought to redefine the role of Black persons in the new Jim Crow era and beat back white supremacy through racial uplift. Seven essays include Charles Chesnutt's "The Disfranchisement of the Negro", W. E. B. DuBois "The Talented Tenth", and Wilford Horace Smith's "The Negro and the Law" .

It is only within our “for-profit” capitalistic American health care system that the surgical device manufacturing industry is allowed to influence people and institutions in ways structured to increase their bottom line, regardless of patient complications or long-term outcomes. American industry has successfully manufactured ingenious methods to circumvent meaningful accountability for their implanted devices.

The Right Problems. The Wrong Answers. What the Democratic Socialists of America Get Right. And Get Wrong. America has real problems. Housing is becoming unaffordable. Health care costs continue to climb. Wealth inequality has widened. Young people wonder whether they'll ever own a home. Many workers feel left behind. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has identified many of these challenges with clarity and passion. So why haven't more Americans embraced its solutions? In The Right Problems. The Wrong Answers., author Matthew H. Newell takes a thoughtful, evidence-based look at one...

What would you do if you were President of the United States? In If I Were President, Mark Butts takes on that question from the perspective of an ordinary American who believes the country’s biggest problems still have practical solutions. From the cost of living, housing, healthcare, taxes, Social Security, crime, immigration, education, and government spending to energy, artificial intelligence, national defense, China, Russia, Israel, and the limits of presidential power, this book offers a wide-ranging blueprint for a stronger America. Rather than approaching politics as a Washington...

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque. The stories in Hot Water Music dash around...

♥The Candy Beach Series ♥ What would you do if you suddenly became a single mom to a seven-year-old child? Overnight, Monica Crawford finds her neatly organized life is turned upside down. Her sister abandons her blind son, Scotty, leaving him on Monica's doorstep. Caring for a child was not in Monica's carefully-laid plans. After all, she's working on her MBA while pursuing a marketing director job at The Chocolate Dreams Candy Company. However, caring for a disabled child brings unexpected conflict-and unexpected joy. When John French volunteers to tutor Scotty, he's drawn to Monica. ...

Have you been wondering about the big issues dominating the news? Is climate change a massive threat or not? What is really going on with immigration? More importantly, how did American politics become so divided and hostile? What if we approached American social, cultural and political problems from a purely rational perspective? What if we focus on functional systems instead of division? Careful analysis of readily available data can help us discover patterns and uncover the real issues. 

This book has two primary story lines. First, it is a fictional story of America's collapse. The second major storyline is the author's own spiritual-journey memoir, which includes significant persecution in the U.S. Storyline 1: America's Great Divorce and the soon-to-be Divided States of America are inevitable. What manifests as political disagreement reveals something far deeper—a fracture in the American soul. As accusations of fascism, Marxism, and treason tear the nation apart, the assassination of President Humphrey triggers a chain of events that pushes the federal government ...

Does the number of children gunned down double each year? Does anorexia kill 150,000 young women annually? Do white males account for only a sixth of new workers? Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong. This book is a lively guide to spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers. Damned Lies and Statistics is essential listening for everyone who reads or listens to the news....

As America begins to come to terms with the costs of White privilege to Black lives, this book urges a soul-searching examination of the role American Christianity has played in sustaining everyday white supremacy by assuring White people of their innocence. In Mormonism and White Supremacy, Joanna Brooks offers an unflinching look at her own people's history and culture and finds in them lessons that will hit home for every scholar of American religion and person of faith. 

In his meteoric, 13-year rise to fame, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a mass movement for civil rights - with his relentless peaceful, non-violent protests, public demonstrations, and eloquent speeches. But as violent threats cast a dark shadow over Dr. King's life, Swanson hones in on James Earl Ray, a bizarre, racist prison escapee who tragically ends King's life.

From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in...

Human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. Nor is it something that just happens to "other people," such as runaways or the disenfranchised. Even kids in your own neighborhood can fall victim. But they don't have to.

"Told with authority and style. . . Crisply summarizing the Adamses' legacy, the authors stress principle over partisanship."--The Wall Street Journal How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our...