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Title: You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech

Author: Dennis Baron

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Release date: April 9, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.

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Title: I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Author: Kai Cheng Thom

Narrator: Nicky Endres

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Release date: April 9, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.

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Title: The Fire Next Time

Author: James Baldwin

Narrator: Jesse L. Martin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice. 'Jesse L Martin... highlights the rhythmic nature of Baldwin’s prose, and channels his anger and devastation at the unceasing suffering of Black Americans.' (The Guardian) 'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers.' (Barack Obama) 'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle...all presented in searing, brilliant prose.' (The New York Times Book Review) ©1963 James Baldwin (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: The City Is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis

Author: Gregory Royal Pratt

Narrator: Christopher Douyard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Release date: April 2, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Chicago is a world-class city, but it is also a city in crisis. Crime is up, schools have repeatedly shut down due to conflict between City Hall and the powerful teachers' union, and COVID-19 only deepened the entrenched poverty, institutional racism, and endless tug of war between the city's haves and have nots. For four years, the person at the center of this storm was Lori Lightfoot. A groundbreaking figure—the first Black, gay woman to be elected mayor of a major city and only the second female mayor of Chicago—she knew the city was at a critical turning point when she took office in 2019. But the once-in-a-lifetime challenges she ended up facing were beyond anything she or anyone else saw coming. Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Royal Pratt offers the first comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the tumultuous single term of Mayor Lightfoot and the chaos that roiled the city and City Hall as she fought to live up to her promises to change the city's culture of corruption and villainy, reform its long-troubled police department, and make Chicago the safest big city in America.

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Title: National Ballot Measures 2024: Living Democracy

Author: Michael Mathiesen

Narrator: Michael Mathiesen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The next amendment to the U.S. Constitution will enable anyone to put their proposed law on the Federal Ballot - A Real Democracy at last! The founding fathers of this nation assembled it during the horse-and-buggy era, a time without telephones, electricity, or the Internet. Thus, they granted us as much democracy as the technology of their time permitted, which was minimal, and they left room for numerous flaws that have since transformed the original concept into a tyranny dominated by two narrow-minded factions. This book presents itself as the remedy to these outdated mistakes. In the modern era, with the Internet at our disposal, we have the opportunity and the means to VOTE ONLINE and to cast our votes on National Ballot Measures. We can and we will get this country back as the greatest country in the history of the world, but only if we start down the right path NOW and this can happen only with your support.

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Title: Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution

Author: Phillip Koker, Allan Sikk

Narrator: David Marantz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Candidates are the literal 'face' of political parties, yet they are not wedded to them permanently: candidates can enter or leave politics, switch parties, move along or stay behind when parties split or merge. Even in parties that look stable, candidate change happens below the surface, ultimately altering what the parties stand for. Inspired by evolutionary theories, Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution conceptualizes candidates as 'party genes' and develops a candidate-based approach to party evolution. Tracking candidates between elections and parties opens up new perspectives on party development in complex and dynamic settings in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and beyond. Based on a new database of 200,000 electoral candidates from over sixty elections across nine CEE democracies, this book presents a groundbreaking study of party evolution using candidate change as an indicator of party change. Allan Sikk and Philipp Köker offer a series of methodological and conceptual advances for the measurement of candidate turnover, party fission and fusion, programmatic change, and party leadership change; the resulting analyses make a significant contribution to the study of CEE party politics as well as to the general scholarship on elections, parties, and political change.

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Title: Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come

Author: John Daniel Davidson

Narrator: Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Evil Is Coming – Worse than You Imagine We live in an anxious age. Long-held certainties, cherished beliefs, and social trust are crumbling. Don’t expect things to get better. For too long we have taken our Christian heritage—the heritage upon which America was built—for granted. But we’re rapidly, and now inevitably, losing the Christian culture that shaped the American republic. What will take its place is a despotism—and a new paganism, worse than the old, because it will be based on a hatred of Christianity. In his stunning new book, Pagan America, author John Daniel Davidson offers a stark but honest assessment of America’s future: “America as we know it will come to an end. Instead of a republic of free citizens, we will be slaves in a pagan empire.” There is, he warns, no escape. We can only brace ourselves and prepare for a future when power will determine every relationship. Morality as we know it, as a Christian inheritance, will be forfeit, replaced by state-enforced “morality.” Violence will be common—doled out at the hand of an all-powerful state and its corporate allies. There are hard times ahead, but we are not without hope. Christianity emerged within the confines of a pagan empire. Davidson shows how with courage, fortitude, and faith, it will be our duty and privilege to defend Christianity and restore its claims in what is likely to be a terrible and brutal dark age.

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Title: On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

Author: Lee Mcintyre

Narrator: Brian P. Craig

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. In On Disinformation, Lee McIntyre shows how the war on facts began, and how ordinary citizens can fight back against the scourge of disinformation that is now threatening the very fabric of our society. Drawing on his twenty years of experience as a scholar of science denial, McIntyre explains how autocrats wield disinformation to manipulate a populace and deny obvious realities, why the best way to combat disinformation is to disrupt its spread, and most importantly, how we can win the war on truth. McIntyre goes through the history of strategic denialism to show how we arrived at this precarious political moment and identifies the creators, amplifiers, and believers of disinformation. On Disinformation lays out ten everyday practical steps that we can take as ordinary citizens—from resisting polarization to pressuring our Congresspeople to regulate social media—as well as the important steps our government (if we elect the right leaders) must take. On Disinformation empowers us to save our republic from autocracy before it is too late.

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Title: Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response

Author: Judith Curry

Narrator: Wendy Tremont King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond to these challenges. Understanding the deep uncertainty surrounding the climate change problem helps us to better assess the risks. This book shows how uncertainty and disagreement can be part of the decision-making process. It provides a road map for formulating pragmatic solutions. Climate Uncertainty and Risk is a must-listen for those concerned about the environment, professionals dealing with climate change, and our national leaders.

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Title: A War Made in Russia

Author: Sergei Medvedev

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia's war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin's obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation and post-imperial ressentiment, a culmination of Putin's regime and of Russia's entire imperial history. Building on his prize-winning book The Return of the Russian Leviathan, Medvedev argues that it was not only Putin that started this war, but Russia itself, which, by and large, has imagined and embraced it with enthusiasm, seeking to relive its own military glory and colonial past.