Politics & Economy audiobooks

Outspoken

By: Sima Samar

Narrated by: Wajma Soroor & Sally Armstrong

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.

“I have three strikes against me. I’m a... Read more

Bad Therapy

By: Abigail Shrier

Narrated by: Abigail Shrier

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.

From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children... Read more

Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom

By: Michael J. Glennon

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A vast censorship regime has smothered America's digital marketplace of ideas, squelching free speech on vital policy issues. Its supporters regard its benefits as morally and politically beyond question. They contend it's carried out by private social media platforms, not governmental authorities.



In Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom, Michael J.... Read more

Blood Money

By: Peter Schweizer

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt’s often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body count is one-sided.China is killing Americans and working aggres­sively to maximize the carnage while our leaders remain passive and, in some cases, compliant. Why?If anyone could crack the code,... Read more

Kuni

By: Tsuyoshi Sekihara & Richard McCarthy

Narrated by: Kym Miller

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Reading Kuni makes me want to dive into rural Japan...this book reminds me that leaders emerge when and where you least expect it.”
— ALICE WATERS, founder of Chez Panisse restaurant, activist, and author

A guide to reviving and revitalizing forgotten places and communities through the Japanese principles of kuni

Kuni offers a unique model for the... Read more

The Poverty of the World

By: Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s,... Read more

The Washington Book

By: Carlos Lozada

Narrated by: Carlos Lozada

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times and “an absolutely original genius” (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post) Carlos Lozada explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in doing so, illuminate the personal, political, and cultural conflictions driving Washington and the... Read more

The Economics of Poverty

By: Martin Ravallion

Narrated by: Bruce Mann

Length: 32 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than thirty years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over... Read more

White Rural Rage

By: Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles

“This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump.”—David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American... Read more

Radical Politics

By: Peter D. Thomas

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of radical social and political movements around the world. From the International Women's Strike and Occupy, to #BlackLivesMatter and direct action against the climate emergency, a series of common questions have re-emerged as immediate and practical challenges. How should radical political... Read more

No Common Sense:

By: Lucy Furr

Narrated by: Will McPherson

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

You are cordially invited to participate in my absurd but heartfelt attempt to help save this nation from corruption, stupidity, and evil beings of one sort or another. No Common Sense is a genre-bending political satire-based update of Founding Father Thomas Paine’s original Common Sense. An argument and a declaration for independence and... Read more

American Presidents in Diplomacy and War

By: Thomas R. Parker

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

American Presidents in Diplomacy and War chronicles the major foreign policy crises faced by twelve American presidents in order to uncover the reoccurring patterns of successful and less successful uses of diplomatic, economic, and military power. In this book, Thomas R. Parker reveals how America's most successful leaders manage events instead... Read more

Im Moralgefängnis

By: Michael Andrick

Narrated by: Matthias Ernst Holzmann

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Wieso enden unsere Meinungsverschiedenheiten in bitteren Fehden, die uns entzweien? Warum können wir nicht mehr gesittet streiten? Woher rührt das peinliche Schweigen in Familien, unter Freunden und Kollegen, sobald es um Politik geht? Ob Coronakrise, Zuwanderung oder Ukrainekrieg: Dass die Gesellschaft wahlweise "polarisiert" oder "gespalten"... Read more

Canada Alone

By: Kim Richard Nossal

Narrated by: Kyle Snyder

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Canada must prepare for an isolationist and unpredictable neighbor to the South should a MAGA leader gain the White House in 2025.

The American-led global order has been increasingly challenged by Chinese assertiveness and Russian revanchism. As we enter this new era of great-power competition, Canadians tend to assume that the United States... Read more

The Primary Solution

By: Nick Troiano

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. The Primary Solution is the “thought-provoking” (Arnold Schwarzenegger) answer the country needs.

Congress has become an unproductive and unaccountable mess. Polls show that only twenty percent of Americans... Read more

Georgy Zhukov: The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Greatest General during World War II

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the warm predawn darkness of June 22, 1941, 3 million men waited along a front hundreds of miles long, stretching from the Baltic coast of Poland to the Balkans. Ahead of them in the darkness lay the Soviet Union, its border guarded by millions of Red Army troops echeloned deep throughout the huge spaces of Russia. This massive gathering of... Read more

THE SECRET POLICE OF RUSSIA

By: Marc Booth

Narrated by: Evan Brown

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1918, Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia.  He was betrayed by the Secret Police, who labeled him "the most dangerous counter-revolutionary at large in the Tashkent region." As he fled from Lenin's men, he was aided by the indigenous peoples of the region, the Kirghiz and the Sarts,... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Liam Johnson

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. The document presents an analysis of capitalism and its effects on society, as well as a call for the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment of a communist society. The Manifesto begins by describing the historical development... Read more

Das Ich im Du

By: Christian Roos & Tanja Roos

Narrated by: Christian Roos & Tanja Roos

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieben und Wachsen – das Potenzial einer erfüllten Partnerschaft Eine erfüllte Beziehung kann das Schönste sein, was das Leben zu bieten hat. Eine Erfahrung von Vertrauen, Liebe und Wertschätzung. Doch viele Paare verbleiben in einer anstrengenden Schleife von Streit, Vorwurf und Enttäuschung, wissen die Beziehungs-Coaches Tanja und Christian... Read more

The Mark Steel Solution

By: Mark Steel

Narrated by: Mark Steel

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Steel uses his unique logic to propose subversive solutions to society's problems

What if the Royal Family was chosen by weekly lottery?
Why should giving to charity be illegal?
Could government economic policy be decided by sport?

Award-winning writer and comedian Mark Steel aims to put the world to rights in these 15 episodes, as he comes up... Read more

El cártel judicial

By: J. Jesús Lemus

Narrated by: Rafa Serrano

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

El Cártel Judicial puede ser tan letal como el más violento de los grupos delictivos; una sentencia a modo -infundada, a la ligera, sin elementos de prueba, con pruebas viciadas o para satisfacer intereses personales- puede llegar a ser peor que la muerte. Al más puro estilo de las organizaciones criminales, como si se tratara de un cártel, así... Read more

Wall Street's War on Workers

By: Les Leopold

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Layoffs upend people’s lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known for decades. Yet, we do little to stop them. Why? Why do we allow whole communities to be destroyed by corporate decision-makers? Why do we consider mass layoffs a natural, baked-in feature of... Read more

Friedrich Schiller: Die Schaubühne als eine moralische Anstalt betrachtet

By: Friedrich Schiller

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Friedrich Schiller, frisches Mitglied der "Deutschen Gesellschaft", einer Vereinigung, die sich um die deutsche Sprache bemühte, wollte sich 1784 um die Stelle des Sekretärs der Gesellschaft bewerben. Er hielt bei seiner Bewerbung eben diese Rede über die "Schaubühne als moralische Anstalt." Seiner Meinung nach diente die Bühne als eine... Read more

Las dos izquierdas

By: Jorge G. Castañeda & Joel Ortega Juárez

Narrated by: Ricardo Estrada

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

La historia de la izquierda en México es la historiade dos corrientes: la que proviene de la Revolución mexicana y la que ha buscado deslindarse de ella y de los gobiernos que de ella emanaron. En una de las naciones más desiguales del planeta, la lucha por abatir la injusticia ha moldeado su historia, sus instituciones, su carácter y, por ello,... Read more