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The Curse of Bigness: How Corporate Giants Came to Rule the World — When Giants Shape the Rules
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging — Can Comfort Make Us Less Connected?
American Kleptocracy — How Dirty Money Becomes Political Influence
The Unaccountability Machine — Why Nobody Is Accountable
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family — Why Facts Aren’t Enough
Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran — Who Decides a Nation's Future?
The Invisible Government — Can Democracy Oversee Secret Power?
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence — When Intelligence Becomes Intervention
Inside the Company: CIA Diary — How Covert Operations Shape Politics
Prophet Song — When the Institutions That Protect Us Become Instruments of Fear
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets — When Prices Change What We Value
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity — Was Hierarchy Inevitable?
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom — Who Controls Access?
Abundance — Why America Struggles to Build What It Needs
Universal Basic Income vs. Universal Basic Services — What Makes People Truly Secure? | CIP Debate
Political Order and Political Decay — Why Governments Lose the Capacity to Act
The Road to Serfdom — When Economic Planning Concentrates Power
Will AI Empower Humanity—or Undermine Human Control? | CIP Debate
Do We Really Have Free Will? — Choice, Causation & Responsibility | CIP Debate
The Electoral College — Keep It, Reform It, or Replace It? | CIP Debate
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed — When Legibility Becomes Control
Bad Science — How Weak Evidence Becomes Medical Certainty
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth — How We Correct Collective Error
Start Here | What Is Crisis in Perception?
Modernity and the Holocaust — How Bureaucracy Can Hide Moral Responsibility
The Open Society and Its Enemies — When History Becomes Political Destiny
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) — Why Being Wrong Can Make Us More Certain
Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm and Live With Themselves — How Conscience Gets Bypassed
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 — How Ordinary Life Enabled Tyranny
Welcome to Crisis in Perception — Why Everything Is Connected (Start Here)
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few — Who Really Writes the Market Rules?
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future — When the Basic Bargain Breaks
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream — When Job Loss Becomes Personal
The “S” Word: A Short History of an American Tradition… Socialism — How Reform Becomes Tradition
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business — The Entertainment Trap
Democracy in One Book or Less — Who Writes the Rules of Democracy?
Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America — The Participation Gap
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis — The System of Impunity
Dollarocracy: How the Money-and-Media Election Complex Is Destroying America — Who Shapes Elections?
Democracy for the Few — Who Really Shapes American Government?
Voter Suppression in America — When the Right to Vote Isn't Enough
Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy — Debt Spiral
Radical Priorities — Where Does Power Really Reside in a Democracy?
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up — Why Intelligent Societies Keep Failing
The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary — Is Anyone Above the Law?
Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation — The Limits of Independent Oversight
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class — When Poverty Becomes a Moral Failing
A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution — When Courts Ignore Evidence
The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride through Donald Trump’s America — Why Political Recognition Matters
Frankenstein — When Creation Outruns Responsibility
Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West — Who Defines Social Threats?
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement — Democracy Beyond the Ballot
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter — Who Controls the Digital Public Square?
The Privatization of Everything — When Public Services Lose Public Control
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity — The Hidden Cost of Growth
American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper
Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy — The Accountability Gap
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — When Punishment Outlasts Prison
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America — Who Rules?
The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong — The Price of Dietary Fear
Winner-Take-All Politics — How Organized Power Shapes the Economy
How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back — The Silencing Tax
Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society — Who Gets to Shape the Rules?
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy — The Real Constraint
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right — Jane Mayer
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America — Segregation by Law
The Anxious Generation — How Childhood Was Rewired
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media — Who Controls What We See?
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World — When Ideals Serve Power
How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict — Trust as a Weapon
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community — Why We Stopped Showing Up
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World — Why Evidence Can Mislead
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion — Morality Binds & Blinds
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media — How News Is Filtered
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America — When Lies Become Political Power
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together — The Drained Pool
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies — The Cost of Being Wrong
What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America — The Backlash Paradox
Poverty, by America — Who Benefits from the Invisible Welfare State?
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America — Why Working Still Leaves People Poor
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things — When Fear Distorts Risk
What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures — Making Climate Solutions Work Together
Nineteen Eighty-Four — How Power Takes Control of Reality
Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays — When Duty Overrides Judgment
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t — Why We Defend False Beliefs
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America — When Politics Goes Private
The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism — Who Gets to Define Democracy?
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines — Can Growth Escape Resource Limits?
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy — The Rules Behind the Vote
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment — When Expert Decisions Become a Lottery
Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being — How Belief Builds Our World
The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics — Who Really Holds Power?
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone — Why We Confuse Access with Understanding
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life — When Lies Feel True
Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves — When Belonging Becomes Control
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark — Why Skepticism Matters
Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies — Who Pays for Private Profit?
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit — Can Profiling Reveal a Killer’s Mind?
Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers — How Power Shapes Belief
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger — Who Gets to Be Angry?