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  • Bankrupting Democracy

    Campaign Spending in a Marketplace of Ideas

    by Nathan Katz ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    A deeply researched investigation that shows how the long-held ideas protecting unlimited campaign spending as free speech that once served the needs of political candidates and voters are now shaped to serve the desires of interest groups, threatening the future of American democracy.In the 2010 Citizens United decision, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy stated that the precedent they were ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Writing Religion

    The Case for the Critical Study of Religion

    by Steven W. Ramey, Theodore Louis Trost, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Russell T. McCutcheon, Russell T. McCutcheon, Arjun Appadurai, Aaron W. Hughes0, Martin S. Jaffee1, Nathan Katz2, Amy-Jill Levine3, Bruce Lincoln4, Tomoko Masuzawa5, Ann Pellegrini6, Judith Plaskow7, Jonathan Z. Smith8 ...
    In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is an edited collection of essays that ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    by Jane F. McAlevey ...
    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Read more

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  • Break 'Em Up

    Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money

    by Zephyr Teachout ...
    A passionate attack on the monopolies that are throttling American democracy."[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then organizes against monopoly power in communities across this country. This book is a blueprint for that organizing. In these pages, you will learn how monopolies and oligopolies have taken over almost every aspect of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Problem of the Media

    U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert D. McChesney ...
    The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Hidden History of Monopolies

    How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream

    by Thom Hartmann ...
    "This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation" (Ralph Nader, from the foreword).American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same as cancer does in a body, and, like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economic. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Digital Disconnect

    How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

    by Robert W. McChesney ...
    Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world.McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gradual

    The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age

    by Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox ...
    A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change. Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days, particularly on social media, but is this actually the best way to make the world a better place? In Gradual, Greg Berman and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Dollarocracy

    How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

    by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney ...
    Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Party of the People

    Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP

    by Patrick Ruffini ...
    An eye-opening, “must-read” (Ben Shapiro, founder of The Daily Wire) about the future of the Republican party as they unite working-class voters in a multi-racial, cross-generational populist coalition.Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election shocked the world. Yet his defeat in 2020 may have been even more surprising: he received 12 million more votes in 2020 than in 2016 and his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Class Struggle Unionism

    by Joe Burns ...
    For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ground Wars

    Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns

    by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen ...
    Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD