Politics

Politics (from Greek πολιτικός, "of, for, or relating to citizens"), is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs. It also refers to behavior within civil governments. However, politics can be observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and refers to the regulation of public affairs within a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply po ...more

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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
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To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban
Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
FASCHOLAND: Wir sind hier immer noch in Deutschland
The Hiroshima Men: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb and the Dawning of the Age of Mutually Assured Destruction
Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans (Outspoken by Pluto)
The First Gentleman
Abundance
A Promised Land
So Far Gone
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
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Eleven Numbers
The Summer We Ran
A Different Kind of Power
Edge of Honor: A Thriller (The Scot Harvath Series)
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
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The Communist Manifesto
Animal Farm
1984
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Malcolm X
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. ...more
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Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand

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