Medgar and Myrlie
By: Joy-Ann Reid
Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in America.”—from Medgar and MyrlieBy MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of... Read more
View audiobookTechnofeudalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In a revelatory and path breaking work, the #1 international bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world.
“The Thucydides of our time.” —Jeffrey Sachs
Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars—markets and profit—with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs... Read more
King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 20 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator!
This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards.
"Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook, emulating the majestic cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speeches. He... Read more
The Case for Open Borders
By: John Washington
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, over 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we... Read more
View audiobookOurs Was the Shining Future
By: David Leonhardt
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist behind The New York Times's “The Morning” newsletter.
“With the even-handed incisiveness that has made him one of the country’s most-respected voices on economics, David Leonhardt illuminates the... Read more
On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.
This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author.
In this exclusive audiobook edition, which... Read more
Some People Need Killing
By: Patricia Evangelista
Narrated by: Patricia Evangelista
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
TIME’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “riveting” (The Atlantic) account of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens under President Rodrigo Duterte, hailed as “a journalistic masterpiece” (The New Yorker)
“Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to... 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
View audiobookThe End of the World is Just the Beginning
By: Peter Zeihan
Narrated by: Peter Zeihan
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in... Read more
View audiobookMediocre
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more
Race After Technology
By: Ruha Benjamin
Narrated by: Mia Ellis
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.
Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen... Read more
Saving Us
By: Katharine Hayhoe
Narrated by: Katharine Hayhoe
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times).
Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators... Read more
Capital and Ideology
By: Thomas Piketty
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 48 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic systemThomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up,... Read more
View audiobookPrisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
By: Tim Marshall
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this New York Times bestseller, updated for 2016, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).
Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling... Read more
Outrage Machine
By: Tobias Rose-Stockwell
Narrated by: Justin Price, Bolton Marsh & Tobias Rose-Stockwell
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
An invaluable guide to understanding the underlying machinery and technology that grabs our attention—and keeps us coming back by filling us with rage.
The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features... Read more
Money
By: Jacob Goldstein
Narrated by: Jacob Goldstein
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.
Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped... Read more
Care Work
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for... Read more
View audiobookWhat It Takes
By: Richard Ben Cramer
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 54 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race—and... Read more
View audiobookDebt - Updated and Expanded
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition : David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years,... Read more
View audiobookElectrify
By: Saul Griffith
Narrated by: David Marantz
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In Electrify, Saul Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our... Read more
View audiobookBroken Money
By: Lyn Alden
Narrated by: Guy Swann
Length: 17 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently.The book's goal is for the listener to walk away with a deep understanding of money and monetary history, both in terms of theoretical foundations and... Read more
View audiobookWhat's Our Problem?
By: Tim Urban
Narrated by: Tim Urban
Length: 13 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI to colonizing Mars to... Read more
View audiobookGumption
By: Nick Offerman
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times bestseller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from our nation’s history, from her inception to present day—Nick’s personal pantheon of “great Americans.”To millions of people, Nick Offerman is America. Both Nick and his... Read more
View audiobookThe Color of Money
By: Mehrsa Baradaran
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks.
The... Read more