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Title: How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin

Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Release date: February 13, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Mikhail Khodorkovsky is one of the most astute observers of today's Russia. Imprisoned for a decade in Russia's prisons on politically motivated charges, he knows all too well the best and the worst of his country. He now lives in exile and, like many Russians who live abroad, he longs for the day when he can return to a free and democratic Russia. This book is Khodorkovsky's account of what is happening in Russia today and what could happen in the future. Putin will not last forever: sooner or later, there will be a post-Putin era. But Russia's history has been deeply shaped by an autocratic trap: a revolution against an autocracy has produced another autocracy, followed by another revolution and another autocracy, and so on. If Russia is to find its place as a constructive partner in a global community of civilized nations, then it has to escape this vicious cycle. How to Slay a Dragon is Khodorkovsky's account of his own journey and of how the vicious cycle of Russian history can be broken. He charts a pathway towards a parliamentary federal republic which would enable Russia to become a free and democratic society, living in peace and without dragons.

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Title: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood

Author: Jennifer Mather Saul

Narrator: Clare Staniforth

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Release date: February 8, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

It is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more accepting of wildly implausible conspiracy theories. Dogwhistles and Figleaves explores ways in which such changes—both of which defied previously settled norms of political speech—have been brought about. Jennifer Saul shows that two linguistic devices, dogwhistles and figleaves, have played a crucial role. Some dogwhistles (such as '88', used by Nazis online to mean 'Heil Hitler') serve to disguise messages that would otherwise be rejected as unacceptable, allowing them to be transmitted surreptitiously. Other dogwhistles (like the 1988 'Willie Horton' ad) work by influencing people in ways that they are not aware of, and which they would likely reject were they aware. Figleaves (such as 'just asking questions') take messages that could easily be recognized as unacceptable, and provide just enough cover that people become more willing to accept them. Saul argues that these devices are important for the spread of racist discourse. She also shows how they contribute to the transmission of norm-violating discourse more generally, focusing on the case of wildly implausible conspiracist speech. This book is the first full-length exploration of dogwhistles and figleaves. It offers an illuminating and disturbing view of the workings of contemporary political discourse.

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Title: Litigating the Pandemic: Disaster Cascades in Court

Author: Susan M. Sterett

Narrator: Wendy Tremont King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Release date: February 6, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too. Many of these governance problems wound up in court. Businesses filed insurance claims for lost commerce; when the claims were denied, some companies sued. As state governments ordered closures and otherwise tried to adapt, interest organizations that had long sought to limit government authority challenged them in court. Political officials railed against litigation they argued would stop businesses from reopening. The United States, like other countries, governs partly through litigation, and litigation is one way of seeing the multiple governance failures during the pandemic. Drawing on databases of cases filed, news reports, and other sources, Susan M. Sterett argues that governing during the pandemic must include the human institutions intertwined with the effects of the virus. Those institutions reveal problems well beyond the reach of technical expertise. Failures in private insurance as a way of governing risk, conflicts about the primacy of religion, government authority, and health, are problems that predated the pandemic and will persist in future disasters.

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Title: Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

Author: Joshua Dávila

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Release date: February 6, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Blockchain Radicals uncovers the radical political potential of the blockchain, showing how it can be used by the left in the fight against capitalism. Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft, and scams. The problem is real, but it isn't a new one. Capitalism has ruined crypto, but that shouldn't be the end of it. Blockchain Radicals shows us how this has happened, and how to fix crypto in a way that is understandable for those who have never owned a cryptocurrency as well as those who are building their own decentralized applications. Covering everything from how Bitcoin saved WikiLeaks to decentralized finance, worker cooperatives, the environmental impact of Bitcoin and NFTs, and the crypto commons, it shows how these new tools can be used to challenge capitalism and build a better world for all of us. While crypto is often thought of as being synonymous with unbridled capitalism, Blockchain Radicals shows how the technology can be used for more radical purposes, beyond individual profit and towards collective autonomy.

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Title: How Polarization Begets Polarization: Ideological Extremism in the US Congress

Author: Thomas L. Brunell, Bernard Grofman, Samuel Merrill Iii

Narrator: Thomas L. Brunell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Release date: February 6, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Extreme polarization in American politics is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district candidates and endorsed by the voters in each Congressional district who must choose between the alternatives offered. Tight national party discipline produces party delegations in Congress that are widely separated from one another but each ideologically narrowly distributed. As district constituencies become more polarized and are egged on by activists, parties are further motivated to appeal to their respective bases rather than to voters in the ideological center. America has indeed acquired parties with clear platforms—once thought to be a desirable goal—but these parties are now feuding camps. What resolution might there be? Just as the progressive movement slowly replaced the Gilded Age, might a new reform effort replace the current squabble? Or could an asymmetry develop in the partisan constraints that would lead to ascendancy of the center, or might a new and over-riding issue generate a cross-cutting dimension, opening the door to a new politics? Only the future will tell.

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Title: The Case for Open Borders

Author: John Washington

Narrator: Pete Cross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Release date: February 6, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, over 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their potential—as lines of contact, catalyst, and blend—turning our thresholds into barricades. Brilliant and provocative, The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins; it counters the conspiracies of immigration’s economic consequences; it urgently considers the challenges of climate change beyond the boundaries of narrow national identities. This book grounds its argument in the experiences and thinking of those on the frontlines of the crisis, spanning the world to do so. In each chapter, John Washington profiles a character impacted by borders. He adds to those portraits provocative analyses of the economics and ethics of bordering, concluding that if we are to seek justice or sustainability we must fight for open borders. In recent years, important thinkers have begun to urge a different approach to migration, but no book has made the argument as accessible or as compelling. Washington’s case shines with the voices of people on the move, a portrait of what a world with open borders will give to our common future.

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Title: [German] - Bedingt abwehrbereit - Deutschlands Schwäche in der Zeitenwende (Ungekürzt)

Author: Carlo Masala

Narrator: Patrick Imhof

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Release date: February 2, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Deutschland hatte sich behaglich eingerichtet in der Welt der Globalisierung - einer Welt, die friedlich zusammenzuwachsen und für uns immer sicherer zu werden schien. Doch diese Welt gibt es spätestens seit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine nicht mehr. Über ein Zeitenwendchen ist die deutsche Politik bisher dennoch nicht hinausgekommen. Nach einem ersten Schock hat das Land wieder in den Friedensmodus geschaltet. Carlo Masala zieht eine schonungslose Bilanz und beschreibt, wie wir resilienter werden können - gesellschaftlich, wirtschaftlich, politisch und militärisch. Denn ohne kluges, strategisches Handeln werden wir uns in der neuen Weltunordnung nicht behaupten. Was kann die Bundeswehr, was muss sie können? Wo liegen strukturelle Probleme, und wie bekommt die bisherige Zeitlupenwende mehr Tempo? Was bedeutet der russische Krieg gegen die Ukraine für Deutschland? Wie ist der Angriff zu erklären? Und welche Wege führen zum Frieden? Wohin entwickelt sich das internationale System? Woher rührt die strategische Naivität der Deutschen, und wie können wir uns in der Welt der Zukunft behaupten? Das sind die Fragen, denen Carlo Masala in diesem Buch im Gespräch mit Sebastian Ullrich und Matthias Hansl nachgeht, und es sind zugleich drängende politische Fragen, auf die nicht nur die Bundesregierung Antworten finden muss, sondern auch die deutsche Bevölkerung. Denn die Abwehrbereitschaft eines Landes bemisst sich nicht ausschließlich an den Fähigkeiten seines Militärs. Sie ist, gerade in Zeiten der Cyber-Kriegsführung, der Desinformation und der Verwundbarkeit ziviler Infrastruktur, eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe. Viel mehr externe Schocks als in den letzten drei Jahren kann die Bundesrepublik gar nicht erleiden - abgesehen von einem direkten Angriff auf das eigene Territorium. Wieviel dringlicher kann eine Situation sein? Wenn wir jetzt nicht aufwachen, wird die Fallhöhe umso größer sein.

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Title: Safe Haven: The United Kingdom's Investigations into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice

Author: Jon Silverman, Robert Sherwood

Narrator: Jon Silverman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Release date: February 2, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed, and the expense of some £11 million, it led to just one conviction: that in 1999 of Anthony (Andrzej) Sawoniuk. Safe Haven considers for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations. Within the broader context of war crimes investigations in the United States, Germany, and Australia, the authors reassess the legal and investigative processes and decisions that stymied inquiries, from the War Crimes Act itself to the restrictive criteria applied to it. Taken together, the authors argue that these—including the interpretations of who could and should be prosecuted and decisions about the nature and amount of evidence needed for trial—meant that many Nazi collaborators escaped justice and never appeared in a criminal court. The authors situate this history within the legacy of the Holocaust: how, if at all, do the belated attempts to address a failure of justice sit with an ever-growing awareness of the Holocaust, represented by memorialization and education? In so doing, Safe Haven provokes a timely reconsideration of the relationship between law, history, and truth.

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Title: [Spanish] - Suerte o desastre: El azar como modelo económico de AMLO

Author: Isabella Cota

Narrator: Isabella Cota

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Cualquiera que desee entender la visión económica de AMLO y cómo se enmarca no solo en la coyuntura histórica del México actual, sino ante el cambiante escenario geopolítico del mundo debe, con urgencia, leer este libro. Ante la figura desbordantede AMLO como presidente de México, pocas son las publicaciones que tratan su gestión con objetividad. Isabella Cota lo logra en cuanto a la economía. En esta investigación se relatan las sorpresivas contradicciones ideológicas y económicas de la Cuarta Transformación, las luces y las sombras de una presidencia que en definitiva la historia juzgará. Suerte o desastre es un análisis inteligente —respaldado por datos— que desentraña las consecuencias económicas para bien y para mal de la llamada austeridad republicana, del apoyo incondicional a Pemex y a CFE, de la utilización del ejército como un agente económico, de la fallida lucha contra la corrupción, de la cancelación del NAIM, de la falta de apoyo durante la pandemia, de la canalización de recursos a unos cuantos megaproyectos, de la aparente suerte del presidente, entre otros grandes temas.

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Title: Nationalized Politics: Evaluating Electoral Politics Across Time

Author: Ryan D. Williamson, Joel Sievert, Jamie L. Carson

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In the United States, politics has become increasingly nationalized in recent years as voter decision-making is now driven by partisan or national political forces rather than the attributes of individual candidates. Indeed, voters now seem more concerned with which of the two national parties will be in power across all levels of government as opposed to which candidate will represent them individually. Nationalized Politics asks and answers the question, 'how has nationalization influenced elections across different political eras?' Jamie L. Carson, Joel Sievert, and Ryan D. Williamson look at historical variation in nationalization through an analysis of congressional elections from 1840 to 2020. By examining roughly 180 years of elections, the authors leverage considerable differences in electoral competition, electoral rules, nationalization, polarization, and partisan advantage via the incumbency advantage. Moreover, Carson, Sievert, and Williamson employ a unique survey design to capture citizen attitudes toward the nationalization of politics to further consider the question of how nationalization is currently shaping politics. Providing a comprehensive history of US congressional elections, Nationalized Politics illustrates the roots of the current electoral landscape in the US.