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The Ten Year War

Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

by Jonathan Cohn ...

Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another ... Read more

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Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another
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Sick

The True Story of How American

by Jonathan Cohn ...

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Media Backends

Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations

by Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, Sander de Ridder, Mark Andrejevic, Philippe Bouquillion, Jonathan Cohn, Faithe Day, Fatima Gaw0, Christine Ithurbide1, Anne Kaun2, Amanda Lagerkvist3, Alexis Logsdon4, Stine Lomborg5, Tim Markham6, Vicki Mayer7, Rahul Mukherjee8, Kaarina Nikunen9, Vibodh Parthasarathi0, Philipp Seuferling1, Ranjit Singh2, Jacek Smolicki3, Fredrik Stiernstedt4, Matilda Tudor5, Zala Volcic6 ...

Series series Geopolitics of Information
Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systemsMedia backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape. ... Read more

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Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systemsMedia backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape.
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The Burden of Choice

Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture

by Jonathan Cohn ...

The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Fundamentally concerned with how the recommendation has come to serve as a form of control that frames a contemporary American as heteronormative, white, and well off, this book asserts that the industries that use these automated ... Read more

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The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Fundamentally concerned with how the recommendation has come to serve as a form of control that frames a contemporary American as heteronormative, white, and well off, this book asserts that the industries that use these automated
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Very Special Episodes

Televising Industrial and Social Change

by Jonathan Cohn, Jennifer Porst, Reba Wissner, Philip Scepanski, Barbara Selznick, David Scott Diffrient, Lindsay Giggey, Erin Copple Smith, Ron Becker0, Erin Giannini1, Mimi White2, Brett Mills3, Apryl Alexander4, Christine Becker5, Jorie Lagerwey6, Taylor Nygaard7 ...

Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. on I Love Lucy to contemporary examples such as a delayed episode of Black-ish and the streaming-era ... Read more

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Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. on I Love Lucy to contemporary examples such as a delayed episode of Black-ish and the streaming-era
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The Ten Year War

Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

by Jonathan Cohn ...

Narrated by Jonathan Cohn, Andrew Colford ...

Unabridged

15 hours 14 min

**This program includes an introduction read by the author.Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.**The Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half ... Read more

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**This program includes an introduction read by the author.Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.**The Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half
... Read more

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The Hospital

Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town

by Brian Alexander ...

Narrated by Nick Landrum ...

Unabridged

14 hours 51 min

An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises.“With his signature gut-punching prose, Alexander breaks our hearts as he opens our eyes to America’s deep-rooted sickness and despair by immersing us in the lives of a small town hospital and the people it serves. “ —Beth Macy, bestselling author of DopesickBy following the ... Read more

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An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises.“With his signature gut-punching prose, Alexander breaks our hearts as he opens our eyes to America’s deep-rooted sickness and despair by immersing us in the lives of a small town hospital and the people it serves. “ —Beth Macy, bestselling author of DopesickBy following the
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Unchecked

The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump

by Karoun Demirjian, Rachael Bade ...

Narrated by Courtney Patterson ...

Unabridged

17 hours 36 min

A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history. The definitive—and only—insider account of both Trump impeachments, as told by the two reporters on the front lines covering them for The Washington Post and Politico.In a riveting account that flips the script on ... Read more

$39.99 USD

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A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history. The definitive—and only—insider account of both Trump impeachments, as told by the two reporters on the front lines covering them for The Washington Post and Politico.In a riveting account that flips the script on
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Finance Curse, The

How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

by Nicholas Shaxson ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Unabridged

12 hours 2 min

Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the “resource curse,” seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now, in The Finance Curse, he brings his knowledge ... Read more

$42.99 USD

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Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the “resource curse,” seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now, in The Finance Curse, he brings his knowledge
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What the U.S. Can Learn from China

An Open-Minded Guide to Treating Our Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher

by Ann Lee ...

Narrated by Denise Washington Blomberg ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

DEMOS Senior Fellow and self proclaimed "Tiger Mother of the U.S. economy" Ann Lee has a message for her fellow Americans: stop whining about China and start learning from them instead. She focuses on what Chinese success can teach us in several broad areas: education policy, economic policy and financial markets, foreign policy, strategic planning, and the benefits of a meritocratic political ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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DEMOS Senior Fellow and self proclaimed "Tiger Mother of the U.S. economy" Ann Lee has a message for her fellow Americans: stop whining about China and start learning from them instead. She focuses on what Chinese success can teach us in several broad areas: education policy, economic policy and financial markets, foreign policy, strategic planning, and the benefits of a meritocratic political
... Read more

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The Invention of the Land of Israel

From Holy Land to Homeland

by Shlomo Sand ...

Narrated by Shawn K. Jain ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the 'Holy Land' of Israel—and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it.What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the 'Holy Land' of Israel—and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it.What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the
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Aftershocks

Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl, Thomas Wright ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

16 hours 56 min

**This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors.NAMED A BEST NEW POLITICAL AUDIOBOOK BY VARIETY IN 2021Two of America's leading national security experts offer a definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it will have on the United States and the world order in the 21st Century.**“Informed by history, reporting, and a truly global perspective, ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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**This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors.NAMED A BEST NEW POLITICAL AUDIOBOOK BY VARIETY IN 2021Two of America's leading national security experts offer a definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it will have on the United States and the world order in the 21st Century.**“Informed by history, reporting, and a truly global perspective,
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