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[2021]
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"Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. As she dug into subject after subject, from the financial crisis to declining wages to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common problem at the bottom of them all: racism--but not just in the obvious ways that hurt people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It's the common denominator in our most vexing public...
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[2023]
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"As Congress struggled to carry out its constitutional duties, the Presidency grew stronger, taking on powers that were once in Congress's domain. The Framers did not predict the rise of 2 rival parties--Democratic and Republican-- that would come to dominate nearly every aspect of American political life. Partisanship has thrown their system of checks and balances out of whack. And the ideological differences between the parties have rarely been...
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2016.
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"A timely account of a raging debate: The history of the ongoing struggle between the presidents and Congress over who has the power to declare and wage war. The Constitution states that it is Congress that declares war, but it is the presidents who have more often taken us to war and decided how to wage it. In Waging War, United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals David Barron opens with an account of George Washington and...
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