Politics & Economy audiobooks

Mean Streak

By: Rick Morton

Narrated by: Rick Morton & Tamblyn Lord

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning journalist and writer Rick Morton comes Mean Streak, a gripping and horrifying account of how, over the course of four and a half years, Australia's government turned on its most vulnerable citizens.
Robodebt was a new debt-creation system that was used to illegally pursue close to half a million Australian welfare recipients... Read more

Rights and Freedoms in Peril

By: Tom Fitton

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“When it comes to fighting for the American people’s ‘right to know,’ no one holds a candle to Tom Fitton and his team at Judicial Watch” (Sean Hannity) and now he returns with an exhaustive investigation into the progressive movement’s efforts to dismantle the venerable institutions of American rights and freedoms.

Since the release of... Read more

Abzuglutely!

By: Sarah Aronson

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Battling Bella Abzug was born bellowing! From her childhood in the Bronx to her years as a lawyer, activist, wife, mother, and congresswoman, Bella battled for justice and fairness for everyone. Inspired by her Jewish upbringing and wholehearted belief in tikkun olam—repairing the world—she spoke her truth everywhere she went. Even when it... Read more

Rust Belt Union Blues

By: Theda Skocpol & Lainey Newman

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions were embedded in tight-knit communities, touching nearly every aspect of the lives of members and their families and neighbors. They conveyed fundamental worldviews, making blue-collar unionists into loyal Democrats who saw the party as on... Read more

Tough Rugged Bastards

By: John A. Dailey

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the 9/11 attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld directed the Marine Corps to establish a unit that would answer to US Special Operations Command. The eighty-six-man "Detachment One" was formed with a two-year charter to train and deploy as a "proof-of-concept" to assess the viability of a larger Marine Special Operations... Read more

Palestine

By: brian bean & Sumaya Awad

Narrated by: Jeed Saddy

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won.



Through an internationalist, anti-imperialist lens, this book explores the links between... Read more

The Devil's Playground

By: Andrew Bragg

Narrated by: Kevin P. Mullan

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This book shares the story of the men of Two Charlie and their fight for survival in the Arghandab River Valley, the Devil’s Playground. “The Devil’s Playground” was anything south of the second canal to the men of Charlie Company’s 2nd Platoon—Two Charlie—during their 2009–2010 deployment to the Arghandab River Valley in Afghanistan. The valley... Read more

Globalismo

By: Agustin Laje

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy

Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Desvela los mecanismos ocultos de la dominación mundial con Globalismo: Ingeniería social y control total en el siglo XXI. El exitoso autor Agustín Laje desentraña magistralmente la malvada realidad de nuestro mundo moderno e ilumina las tinieblas de las fuerzas de poder que tratan de controlar a la humanidad. El globalismo no es globalización,... Read more

Becoming Eisenhower

By: Michael Lee Lanning

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness. Yet the young officer made the most of the opportunities he was given, made a lasting impression on superiors, and eventually gained a reputation as an excellent staff officer.



Fifty-nine graduates became generals during World War II,... Read more

The Big Sort

By: Bill Bishop

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided
America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. This social transformation didn't happed by accident. We’ve built a country where we can all choose the... Read more

Beyond the Big Lie

By: Bill Adair

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Adair, Pulitzer Prize winner, journalism professor, and founder of Politifact, presents an eye-opening and engaging history of political liars and a vision for how to make them stop.

Bill Adair knows a lie when he hears one. Since 2008, the site he founded, PolitiFact, has been the go-to spot for media members and political observers alike... Read more

Toxic Empathy

By: Allie Beth Stuckey

Narrated by: Allie Beth Stuckey

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp Christian voice makes a bold argument: when politics are driven by empathy rather than truth, innocent people pay the price.

We are told that empathy is the highest virtue—the key to being a good person. Is that true? Or has “empathy,” like so many other words of our day—“tolerance,” “justice,” “acceptance”—been hijacked by bad actors who... Read more

The Problem with Solutions

By: Julie Guthman

Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises.



Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley,... Read more

Opus

By: Gareth Gore

Narrated by: Raúl Rodríguez

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Sesenta años de una conspiración amparada por el dinero y la religión El periodista de investigación Gareth Gore llegó a España en 2017 para informar sobre el inesperado derrumbe del Banco Popular, considerado hasta entonces como una de las entidades más rentables del mundo. Lo que había de ser una crónica más sobre las consecuencias desastrosas... Read more

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Anna Isaksen

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into Henry David Thoreau's profound essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, where he argues passionately for the right of the individual to oppose governmental injustice. Originally penned in 1849, Thoreau's insights remain as vital and relevant today, influencing civil rights leaders from Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr.Thoreau... Read more

Triebhaft – Zwischen Narzissten, Sadisten und Psychopathen

By: Gilda Giebel

Narrated by: Lana Ghafoor

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Mann lebt seine sexuellen Fantasien auf grausame Weise an Frauen aus. Zuletzt tötet er eines seiner Opfer. Nach einem Vierteljahrhundert hinter Gittern soll er wieder auf freien Fuß gesetzt werden. Seine Entlassung hängt auch von der Einschätzung seiner Psychologin ab: Wird der Mann in Freiheit strafrückfällig? Als Psychologin in der... Read more

Manifesto for the Revitalisation of Cities - Abridged

By: Miguel Rebelo

Narrated by: Miguel Rebelo

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The housing crisis in Portugal serves to illustrate a problem that has implications beyond the borders of the country, shedding light on challenges that are faced by major European and global cities. The rise in housing prices, driven by real estate speculation, the growth of tourism and the influx of foreign investment, has made it increasingly... Read more

The Toughest Challenges for Servant-Leaders

By: Tracy Curington

Narrated by: Kort Michael Holt

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Step back into your very first job. Whether you were babysitting, working as a cashier, or serving in a restaurant, that experience probably stands out. Now think about when you first became a leader. How did it feel when you were given the chance to lead a team? Maybe you took the role for a pay raise or because you wanted to be in charge. But... Read more

Trapped in America's Safety Net

By: Andrea Louise Campbell

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

When Andrea Louise Campbell’s sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived—and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that’s where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the... Read more

US Citizenship 2025/2026 Test Study Guide

By: Mark Ainsworth

Narrated by: Duke Holm

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the ONLY study material you need for the current Citizenship interview exam in 2025!Maybe you’re worried about not passing your examination on the first attempt?Or maybe you have no idea where to begin with preparing for the test?If that’s you, then fortunately we’re here to help you. We want to make sure that you pass your examination... Read more

A Jewish State

By: Theodor Herzl

Narrated by: Josh Ilan

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Theodor Herzl’s visionary work, A Jewish State, published in 1896, laid the foundation for modern political Zionism.In this groundbreaking text, Herzl advocates for the establishment of a Jewish homeland as a solution to the pervasive anti-Semitism faced by Jews in Europe. He meticulously outlines a plan for creating a sovereign state, covering... Read more

The Blood Telegram

By: Gary J. Bass

Narrated by: Dennis Heath

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Book Award
Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Foreign Affairs Book
Winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz Book Award
Winner of the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature
Winner of the Society for Historians of American... Read more

Money Mentor

By: Anna Brading

Narrated by: Anna Brading

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Money Mentor, written and read by Anna Brading

Welcome to money made simple. This is your invitation to transform your finance and create the life you really want.

If you're feeling broke, stressed and fed up of living pay cheque to pay cheque then you're in the right place. Anna Brading was in your position once too, but now... Read more

Is Free Speech Under Threat?

By: Charlotte Lydia Riley, Suzanne Nossel & Intelli...

Narrated by: Charlotte Lydia Riley & Suzanne Nossel

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: Is free speech under threat?

Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading free expression organisation, argues that alongside the necessary and long-overdue elevation of minority voices in recent years,... Read more