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America has its head wedged up so deep, we're looking at tonsils. What are you doing about it? If you're like most people, you're caught somewhere between a frustrated, partisan echo chamber and a finger-pointing media so afraid of being canceled that it's not raising the most important issues we face as a nation.
Unfuck America is that rare, multipartisan, no-bull, sometimes-surprising, unstoppably honest, come-to-Jesus book that rises above the...
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Pandemic Pandemonium-A World in Conflict was written because the threats of force by government coercion, fueled by mainstream media, are in violation of people's basic human rights and are intended to intimidate and coerce a civilian population. People around the world are protesting because of what they believe is the loss of liberty and freedom due to the illegal mandates and suppression of their rights because of this global Pandemic.
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For the past decade Americans have been intensely concerned with the quality of American education, which is hardly surprising given the importance of education to society and the growing evidence of problems in American education. Nowhere are those problems more severe than in our inner cities, where learning has all but ceased in many schools. It was concern about inner-city children that led the Cato Institute to convene a conference, "Education...
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In this book, Kevin A. Sabet argues that the United States should not legalize pot with all of its attendant social costs, nor damage the future prospects of pot smokers by prosecuting and jailing them.
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"Winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award" Daniel J. Tichenor is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He has published extensively in leading journals on immigration policy.
Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book is the most powerful study to date of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing...
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The debate rages on over how to cope with the rising costs of medical care-proposed solutions range from a single payer system with a broad government control to loosely defined market-driven plans. The authors look at three key elements of health care costs and offer thoughtful, realistic suggestions to help stem the tide of rising expenses for everyone.
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Tracing the international and Australian history of both licit and illicit drug use, this investigation combines the topic of drug use with analyses of political power, the rise of the market, and social issues. It examines the way in which drug consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade by first looking at the start of the opium-growing industry and the racist origins of drug laws. Providing a social history of drug use through the...
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Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University. His books include The Irony of Free Speech, Liberalism Divided, and The Civil Rights Injunction. Joshua Cohen is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at MIT. He is Editor of Boston Review. Jefferson Decker, a former managing editor of Boston Review, is a graduate student in U.S. History at Columbia University. Joel Rogers is the John...
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For decades, development economists believed that central planning, not economic freedom, was the key to economic growth in developing countries. In 1956 Gunnar Myrdal, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 1974, wrote, "The special advisers to underdeveloped countries who have taken the time and trouble to acquaint themselves with the problem all recommend central planning as the first condition of progress." While the argument that socialism...
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The so-called housing problem is not national; it is local. Municipalities practice exclusionary zoning that prevents cheap, multifamily housing from being built. Municipalities initiate strict building-code enforcement campaigns that often result in the closing of single-room-occupancy hotels and other cheap housing in inner cities. And municipalities impose rent control - the surest way to produce a housing crisis. William Tucker examines the history...
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Summary: 1) A ban on all firearms (handguns, rifles and shotguns) or a ban on any of the above three types of firearms is impossible. 2) Any crime committed with illegal firearms should be considered a federal crime anywhere in the USA. This translates to much longer minimum sentences. This means less criminals with firearms on the streets, resulting in less crime with firearms in the USA. 3) There should be one federal license for handguns and longarms...
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Science has been a major contributor to the health and wealth we enjoy today, but not everyone is happy about it. Science can get in the way of social and environmental activists, politicians, lawyers, and government regulators who have a political agenda they wish to impose. This book is a tongue-in-cheek "how-to" manual for concerned citizens who are annoyed by "pesky" science. The authors describe more than 20 efforts of individuals and organizations...
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America's air quality is better today than ever before in modern history and continues to steadily improve. How did this remarkable turnaround come about? Basing his conclusions on a painstaking compilation of long-term empirical data on air quality and emissions data extending from the pre- federalization era to the present (some dating back a century), Goklany challenges the orthodoxy that credits federal regulation for improving air quality. He...
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Este libro presenta los primeros resultados del Proyecto fondecyt iniciacion 11110052 de conicyt, donde se analiza el proceso de formulación de la política pública indígena en el caso chileno para el periodo 1990 y 2010. Así, este libro se enfoca en el análisis del por qué la "temática indígena" se instaló en la agenda de gobierno, los factores del contexto que incidieron en la toma de decisiones y los valores e intereses en juego que predominaron...
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Lessons from the Arctic: The Role of Regional Government in International Affairs is a collection of articles written by twenty-six leading and emerging scholars from across the circumpolar region. Each author assesses and explores the processes of regional governance in the Arctic from an interdisciplinary perspective. The topics include Indigenous internationalism, paradiplomacy, federalism, global institution-building, and more.
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Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) served in the U.S. Senate for over thirty-six years. He had a long legacy of contributions to New Mexico as well as the entire country. The Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Institute, located at New Mexico State University, holds an annual conference on Domenici's legacy and these are the Proceedings from the 2011 Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Conference, edited by Sara Micka Patricolo, and published in collaboration...
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Which Side of History? offers a collection of bold essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future.
Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc Benioff, Ellen Pao, Ken Auletta, Chelsea Clinton, Tim Wu, Khaled Hosseini, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Jaron Lanier, Willow Bay, Sal Khan, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Vivek Murthy, Geoffrey Canada, and many more.
The essays focus on the extraordinary...
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Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) served in the U.S. Senate for over thirty-six years. He had a long legacy of contributions to New Mexico as well as the entire country. The Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Institute, located at New Mexico State University, holds an annual conference on Domenici's legacy and these are the Proceedings from the 2012 Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Conference, edited by Sara Micka Patricolo, and published in collaboration...
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Este libro recoge la falta de una respuesta adecuada del Estado a las demandas ciudadanas y que ha provocado una desconexión creciente entre las personas y las instituciones públicas. Impulsar la reforma del Estado adquiere, en consecuencia, una importancia política de primer orden para alcanzar el desarrollo y fortalecer y ampliar la democracia como espacio de convivencia. Para ello se requiere repensar el Estado para hacerlo más robusto y competente,...
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