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The Debt Trap

How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

par Josh Mitchell ...

Collections series A Study of Education and Economics
AN NPR AND NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastating account” (The Wall Street Journal) of student debt in America.In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company’s financial documents to review. “You’ve got to be shitting me,” he later told the company’s CEO. “This place is a gold mine.”Over the next four decades, ... En savoir plus

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AN NPR AND NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastating account” (The Wall Street Journal) of student debt in America.In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company’s financial documents to review. “You’ve got to be shitting me,” he later told the company’s CEO. “This place is a gold mine.”Over the next four decades,
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The Cultural Matrix

Understanding Black Youth

par Andrew Clarkwest, Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire, Kathryn Edin, Amy E. Foran, Simone Ispa-Landa, Alexandra A. Killewald, Joseph C. Krupnick, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Wayne Marshall, Jody Miller, Josh Mitchell, Jackie Rivers, James E. Rosenbaum, Janet Rosenbaum, Peter Rosenblatt, Robert J. Sampson, Pam Schuetz, Tommie Shelby, Jennifer Stephan, Van C. Tran, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Christopher Winship, Robert G. Wood, Queenie Zhu ...

The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over 40 percent, a third spending time in prison, chronic unemployment, and endemic violence, black youth are ... En savoir plus

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The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over 40 percent, a third spending time in prison, chronic unemployment, and endemic violence, black youth are
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The Debt Trap

How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

par Josh Mitchell ...

Lu par Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Collections series A Study of Education and Economics
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8 heure 5 min

AN NPR AND NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastating account” (The Wall Street Journal) of student debt in America.In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company’s financial documents to review. “You’ve got to be shitting me,” he later told the company’s CEO. “This place is a gold mine.”Over the next four decades, ... En savoir plus

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AN NPR AND NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastating account” (The Wall Street Journal) of student debt in America.In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company’s financial documents to review. “You’ve got to be shitting me,” he later told the company’s CEO. “This place is a gold mine.”Over the next four decades,
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Dopesick

Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

par Beth Macy ...

Lu par Beth Macy ...

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10 heure 16 min

A Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans.In this extraordinary work ... En savoir plus

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A Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans.In this extraordinary work
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The Sum of Us

What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

par Heather McGhee ...

Lu par Heather McGhee ...

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11 heure 8 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.**WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington ... En savoir plus

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.**WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

par Shoshana Zuboff ...

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24 heure 16 min

**An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior“Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times**The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.The fight for a human ... En savoir plus

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**An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior“Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times**The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.The fight for a human
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American Midnight

The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis

par Adam Hochschild ...

Lu par Jonathan Todd Ross ...

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15 heure 6 min

From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor""A riveting, resonant account of the fragility of freedom.”—Kirkus, STARRED ... En savoir plus

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From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor""A riveting, resonant account of the fragility of freedom.”—Kirkus, STARRED
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Maid

Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

par Stephanie Land ...

Lu par Stephanie Land ...

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8 heure 34 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, HAILED BY ROLLING STONE AS "A GREAT ONE.""A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work."-PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading ListAt 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of a... ... En savoir plus

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, HAILED BY ROLLING STONE AS "A GREAT ONE.""A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work."-PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading ListAt 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of a...
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

par Rashid Khalidi ...

Lu par Rashid Khalidi, Fajer Al-Kaisi ...

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10 heure 30 min

**This program includes an introduction read by the author.A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.**In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore ... En savoir plus

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**This program includes an introduction read by the author.A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.**In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore
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How Democracies Die

par Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt ...

Lu par Fred Sanders ...

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8 heure 24 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The urgent and influential guide to the forces that have undermined democracies across the globe—forces running rampant in the United States today—hailed as “a touchstone” (The New Yorker) that “comes at exactly the right moment” (The Washington Post)“Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)“[Levitsky and ... En savoir plus

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The urgent and influential guide to the forces that have undermined democracies across the globe—forces running rampant in the United States today—hailed as “a touchstone” (The New Yorker) that “comes at exactly the right moment” (The Washington Post)“Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)“[Levitsky and
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Between the World and Me

par Ta-Nehisi Coates ...

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3 heure 35 min

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the ... En savoir plus

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the
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Leave the World Behind

A Novel

par Rumaan Alam ...

Lu par Marin Ireland ...

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7 heure 26 min

Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan AlamA Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in FictionOne of ... En savoir plus

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Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan AlamA Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in FictionOne of
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