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The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment. What began in the nin...

The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives. The reality was differe...

Two veteran reporters delve into the business of Formula One from the boardroom to the track, revealing the shady deals, scandals, and secret contr...

In 2004, a California computer whiz named Barrett Lyon uncovered the identity of a hacker running major assaults on business websites. Without full...

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945, his lifelong physician swore that the president had always been in perfect health. Twenty-five years l...

Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us—which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds,...

Which is smarter -- your head or your gut? It's a familiar refrain: you're getting too emotional. Try and think rationally. But is it always good a...

Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy -- reinvi...

Discover the world records that define our history and jump headfirst into the past using scientific data that reveals accurate and insightful ans...

The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world l...

On 9/11 the U.S. had effectively no counterterrorism doctrine. Fast forward ten years: Osama bin Laden is dead; al Qaeda is organizationally ruined...

In November 1963, the president of South Vietnam and his brother were brutally executed in a coup that was sanctioned and supported by the American...

Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biolog...

A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians C-SPAN's yearlong histo...

A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians C-SPAN's yearlong histo...

Some students of the presidency say that we can learn the most about the men who've occupied the Oval Office by studying their ideology. Others say...

Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex,...

A French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very differen...

An “un-putdownable read” (Stephen Grey, author of Ghost Plane) that reveals the true story of a plane of unsuspecting passengers who landed in a wa...

An eye-opening guide to how America feeds itself, and an essential companion to the documentary.   America’s food system is broken, harming family ...

Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in Americ...

In 2001, Captain James "Yusuf" Yee was commissioned as one of the first Muslim chaplains in the United States Army. After the tragic attacks of Sep...

In this illuminating book, the architect of some of the most famous ad campaigns of the last decade reveals how our perspective can be influenced b...