Politics & Economy audiobooks

Paper Soldiers

By: Saleha Mohsin

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Incisive debut treatise... Mohsin brings to the proceedings a reporter's eye for story" — Publisher's Weekly

From Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin, the untold story of how one of America’s most invincible institutions—the Treasury—has used the U.S. dollar to define America’s role in the world, and our economic future.

In 1995, Treasury... Read more

Get It Together

By: Jesse Watters

Narrated by: Larry Wayne

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCan the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country?When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked him:First, he liked... Read more

Wake Up America

By: Keisha N. Blain

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1968, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer called for Americans to "wake up" if they wanted to "make democracy a reality." Today, as Black communities continue to face challenges built on centuries of discrimination, her plea is increasingly urgent. In this exhilarating anthology of original essays, Keisha N. Blain brings together the... Read more

The End of the Alphabet

By: Isabel Brown

Narrated by: Isabel Brown

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A rising Gen Z star empowers members of her generation to embrace conservative values and to rise up and fight for the future and those who will come after us Gen Z has the power to change the world. As the largest emerging demographic in American history, Gen Z is at the center of a cultural shift, one that will define the direction of our... Read more

Broken

By: Jessica Pryce

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families.Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in... Read more

I Am the Law

By: Michael Molcher

Narrated by: Keval Shah

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

He is the law—and you better believe it!



Judge, jury, and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD in 1977.



But what began as a sci-fi action comic quickly evolved into a searing satire on... Read more

Illiberal America

By: Steven Hahn

Narrated by: Mitch Crawford

Length: 17 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.



Driven by popular movements and implemented through courts and legislation,... Read more

Work, Retire, Repeat

By: Teresa Ghilarducci

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook version of this book. A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States—and how we can fix it. While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all. Instead,... Read more

El loco

By: Juan Luis González

Narrated by: Miguel Pardo

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué pasa si en un país inestable aparece un líder inestable? Este libro quería ser una radiografía de la nueva derecha que hoy tiene como líder a Javier Milei. Pero con el correr de los meses, de las entrevistas, de los encuentros off the record, de seguir facturas, sellos y papeleríos, el trabajo pasó de ser uno de campo con ribetes casi... Read more

COPOUT

By: Nick Breeze

Narrated by: Paul Panting

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Wry and passionate first-hand observations from the global climate negotiations – essential for capturing the spirit of this endlessly frustrating struggle’ – Bill McKibbenMost people tend to turn away, perhaps understandably, from the key existential issue of the day: climate change or, some would say more accurately, climate collapse. Nick... Read more

Lo que nos está pasando

By: Moisés Naím

Narrated by: Carlos Vicente

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Un retrato del mundo que no renuncia a un futuro más optimista desde la mirada de uno de los analistas más influyentes de la actualidad. «A pocas personas les cabe el mundo en la cabeza. Cuando algo raro ocurre, en Venezuela, Ucrania, en Corea, en Alemania o en Brasil, me digo siempre lo mismo: ¿qué pensará sobre esto Moisés Naím? Siempre da una... Read more

Cheap Land Colorado

By: Ted Conover

Narrated by: Sebastian Waldemer

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Pulitzer-Preis-Finalist und National Book Critics Circle Award-Preisträger von Newjack führt durch ein wildes Amerika abseits des Zivilisation, wo es neben Unabhängigkeit und atemberaubenden Aussichten auch heftige Winde, Nachbarn mit krimineller Vergangenheit und minimale staatliche und medizinische Versorgung gibt.

"In diesen Depeschen lädt... Read more

Winston Churchill

By: Franziska Augstein

Narrated by: Jutta Seifert

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Held des 20. Jahrhunderts: Er hat Hitler aufgehalten Unter den herausragenden Politikern des 20. Jahrhunderts ist Churchill der schillerndste. Hollywood hat den Adeligen mit der Zigarre längst zu einer Film- und Heldenfigur überhöht. Seine Sätze, dass er etwa »außer Blut, Schweiß und Tränen« nichts zu bieten habe, sind geflügelte Worte.... Read more

We’ve Been Here Before: The Complete Series 1 and 2

By: Clive Anderson

Narrated by: Clive Anderson, Gyles Brandreth, Jimmy Carr, Jo...

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Clive Anderson and guests poke fun at the past in this panel show with a yesteryear twistOriginally broadcast on Radio 4 in 2003-4, We’ve Been Here Before is the topical, satirical, historical panel game that aims to show beyond all doubt that there’s nothing new in the news. Hosted by award-winning comedian, broadcaster and Whose Line Is It... Read more

Trump's Indictment

By: Mark Jackson

Narrated by: Will Stauff

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In our shared pursuit for a better America, recent events have sparked diverse perspectives. While some celebrated Trump's indictment, others questioned its alignment with democratic principles.
The timing of the indictment raised eyebrows, prompting reflections on fairness and equality before the law. "The Unprecedented Indictment of Donald J.... Read more

This Isn’t Fine

By: Taylor Ahlstrom

Narrated by: Taylor Ahlstrom

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This Isn’t Fine is a surprisingly funny and accessible ride through a world on the brink of collapse—and what we can do to survive it. Diving headfirst into finance and energy, culture and ecology, Taylor Ahlstrom transforms the complex systems and histories that underpin our society into relatable narratives, all while mythbusting popular... Read more

The Lie Detectives

By: Sasha Issenberg

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

How can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?

A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called "Moneyball for politics," journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era's most pressing challenge: how to win... Read more

American Flannel

By: Steven Kurutz

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“I can confidently say this will be one of my favorite books of 2024.” —Stephen King, bestselling author (and onetime millworker)

“American Flannel is a wonderful book--surprising, entertaining, vivid and personal, but also enlightening on the largest questions of America's economic and social future.” —James Fallows, co-author of Our Towns
 
The... Read more

Natives against Nativism

By: Olivia C. Harrison

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the 2000s. In Natives against Nativism, Olivia C. Harrison explores the intersection of... Read more

The Individualization of War

By: Jennifer Welsh, Dapo Akande & David Rodin

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The rights and responsibilities of the individual are at the center of today's armed conflicts in a way that they have never been before. This process of "individualization," which challenges the primacy of the sovereign state, is driven by normative developments related to human rights that have elevated human-centric conceptions of security... Read more

The Return of Great Powers

By: Jim Sciutto

Narrated by: Jim Sciutto

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller

A Politico Top 10 Book of 2024

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

“An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee sufficiently deluded to think that returning America to its isolationist past or making chummy with Putin is a... Read more

Fearless

By: Eric Blehm

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Go deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators.

When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn’t know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan—but he was ready. In a letter to his children, not meant to be seen unless the worst happened, he wrote, “I’m not afraid... Read more

The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East

By: Laura Robson

Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of... Read more

India's Struggle for Independence

By: Bipan Chandra

Narrated by: Derek Denzil

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

India's Struggle For Independence presents a detailed outlook on the struggle for Indian Independence in a new analytical framework.

Designed for ardent history enthusiasts, India's Struggle For Independence is one of the most exhaustive and precise account of the struggle of Indian Independence ever written in the literary world. Written and... Read more