The author, founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website PolitiFact, draws on nearly 20 years of journalistic experience to reveal the patterns of political lies, why Republicans do more of it, and the frightening consequences for our democracy. This book goes behind the scenes of campaigns, to show the cynical calculations of officials who have accepted lying as a routine weapon in daily political battles. Showing that political...

This comprehensive volume considers major issues in the United States, and suggests that the American self image of greatness, of being the best, most advanced country, is a flawed concept. The specific chapters address these topics: Elections; Attitude: Immigration; Racial tension; Anti-terrorism; Energy; Trump politics; Impeachment. Considering gerrymandering, voter suppression, the border wall, Dreamers, and a whole host of Trump/Republican...

Written as the 500th anniversary of Columbus's historic voyage to the New World, the author asks: What do we really have to celebrate? With Latin America in a state of deep crisis, with inflation, unemployment and foreign debt threatening economic and political institutions, Fuentes never the less finds consolation in an amazingly rich cultural heritage in art, literature, and the vital societies of Central and South America.

"Why are humans the only species to have escaped - only very recently - the subsistence trap, allowing us to enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds all others? And why have we progressed so unequally around the world, resulting in the great disparities between nations that exist today? Immense in scope and packed with astounding connections, Galor's gripping narrative explains how technology, population size, and adaptation led to a stunning...

"A book about the literal and figurative end of time and what that means for us as conscious beings, Desert Notebooks looks at how both the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and our increasingly unstable global socio-political institutions have led to an existential crisis orders of magnitude greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene what might some of our own histories tell us about how...

"The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed...

"A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late-from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die. America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault...