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Lina Zeldovich, "The Living Medicine"

102

Rep. Mike Waltz, "Hard Truths - Think and Lead Like a Green Beret"

103

Stephanie Baker, "Punishing Putin"

104

Brigid Schulte, "Over Work"

105

Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom"

106

Paola Ramos, "Defectors -The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America"

107

Brooke Harrington, "Offshore - Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism"

108

Kim Wehle, "Pardon Power - How the Pardon System Works - and Why"

109

Joel Pollak, "The Agenda - What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days"

110

Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

111

Eddie Glaude, "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For"

112

Susan Page, "The Rulebreaker - The Life and Times of Barbara Walters"

113

Johann Hari, "Magic Pill"

114

Peter Goodman, "How the World Ran Out of Everything"

115

Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

116

Soraya Chemaly, "The Resilience Myth"

117

David Sanger, "New Cold Wars"

118

Ruchir Sharma, "What Went Wrong with Capitalism"

119

Lawrence Ingrassia, "A Fatal Inheritance - How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery"

120

Ernesto Londoño, "Trippy - The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics"

121

Shefali Luthra, "Undue Burden - Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America"

122

Mike Hixenbaugh, "They Came for the Schools"

123

Freeman Hrabowski, "The Resilient University"

124

Jim Wallis, "The False White Gospel"

125

Johann Hari, "Magic Pill"

126

David Sanger, "New Cold Wars"

127

Susan Page, "The Rulebreaker - The Life and Times of Barbara Walters"

128

Eddie Glaude, "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For"

129

Batya Ungar-Sargon "Second Class"

130

Annie Jacobsen, "Nuclear War"

131

Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation"

132

Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"

133

Jane Marie, "Selling the Dream"

134

Dr. Elizabeth Comen, "All in Her Head"

135

Kara Swisher, "Burn Book - A Tech Love Story"

136

Marie Arana, "LatinoLand - A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority"

137

Andrew Curran, "Who’s Black and Why?"

138

Coleman Hughes, "The End of Race Politics"

139

Ijeoma Oluo, "Be a Revolution"

140

Donald McNeil, "The Wisdom of Plagues - Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics"

141

David Stockman, "Trump's War on Capitalism"

142

Rachel Slade, "Making It in America"

143

Peter Biskind, "Pandora's Box - How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV"

144

Philip Bump, "The Aftermath"

145

FEED DROP: Convo w/ New Q&A Host Peter Slen

146

Booknotes+: Mark Bergen, "Like, Comment, Subscribe"

147

Tim Alberta "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory"

148

Jeff Horwitz, "Broken Code Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets"

149

Jennifer Burns, "Milton Friedman - The Last Conservative"

150

Books That Shaped America: Life of Frederick Douglass w/ Prof. David Blight

151

Fei-Fei Li, "The World's I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI"

152

Greg Lukianoff, "The Canceling of the American Mind"

153

Ruth Simmons, "Up Home - One Girl's Journey"

154

Martin Baron, "Collision of Power"

155

Ryan Reilly, "Sedition Hunters - How January 6th Broke the Justice System"

156

Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun"

157

Melissa Kearney, "The Two-Parent Privilege"

158

Adam Nagourney, "The Times"

159

Meg Kissinger, "While You Were Out - An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence"

160

Loren Grush, "The Six - The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts"

161

Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School"

162

Booknotes+ : Matthew Delmont, "Half American"

163

Q&A: Shahan Mufti on the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.

164

Q&A: James Rosen, "Scalia"

165

Booknotes+ : Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"

166

Matt Lewis, "Filthy Rich Politicians"

167

Judge Amul Thapar, "The People's Justice - Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him"

168

Wesley Lowery, "American Whitelash - A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress"

169

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, "The Overlooked Americans"

170

Jason Del Rey, "Winner Sells All - Amazon, Walmart and the Battle for Our Wallets"

171

Booknotes+ : Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The World"

172

Rebecca Grant, "Birth - Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America"

173

Michael Waldman, "The Supermajority - How the Supreme Court Divided America"

174

David Bernhardt, "You Report to Me - Accountability for the Failing Administrative State"

175

Keith Ellison, "Break the Wheel - Ending the Cycle of Police Violence"

176

Booknotes+ : James B. Stewart, "Unscripted"

177

Oscar Munoz, "Turnaround Time - Uniting an Airline and Its Employees in the Friendly Skies"

178

Alexandra Robbins, "The Teachers - A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession"

179

Matika Wilbur, "Project 562 - Changing the Way We See Native America"

180

Ava Chin, "Mott Street - A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming"

181

Adam Benforado, "A Minor Revolution - How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All"

182

Kelly Pope, "Fool Me Once - Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry"

183

David McCormick, "Superpower in Peril"

184

Matthew Desmond, "Poverty, By America"

185

Angela Saini, "The Patriarchs - The Origins of Inequality"

186

Kathleen McLaughlin, "Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry"

187

Mia Love, "Qualified"

188

Nick Tabor, "Africatown - America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created"

189

Todd Bensman, "Overrun - How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History"

190

Joanna Schwartz, "Shielded - How the Police Became Untouchable"

191

Maya Kornberg, "Inside Congressional Committees"

192

Saket Soni, "The Great Escape"

193

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), "Crushed - Big Tech's War on Free Speech"

194

Philip Bump, "The Aftermath"

195

Ben Crump and Armstrong Williams, "Crisis in the Classroom"

196

Steven Sund, "Courage Under Fire"

197

Linda Villarosa, "Under The Skin: The Hidden Toll Of Racism On American Lives And On The Health Of Our Nation"

198

Booknotes + : Stacy Schiff, "The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams"

199

Nouriel Roubini, "MegaThreats"

200

Steve Case, "The Rise of the Rest"