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Value(s): Building a Better World for All
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Growth: A Reckoning
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
There Are No Accidents
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap – From Tulsa's Black Wall Street to Greenwood Banking and Racial Justice
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021
America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society
Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe
Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 (Dangerous Nation Trilogy)
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America
Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand
The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

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The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic sanctions work? While the success rate differs depending on the objective, the historical record is relatively clear: most economic sanctions have not worked. In the twentieth century, only one in three uses of sanctions was “at least partially successful.” More modest goals have better chances of su ...more
Nicholas Mulder , The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

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Scaling a solution that saves or improves the lives of eight-year-olds instead of eighty-year-olds has a bigger cumulative impact over time and thus arguably calls for a larger slice of the budget.
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