Freedom & Security

In The Fix, McQuade draws on her decades of experience as a federal prosecutor to reveal how systems of organized crime and political opportunism exploit the levers of power—using corruption, cruelty, and chaos as tools to dominate institutions and eliminate accountability. With clarity...

The United States was shaped by resistance—but not in the way we’ve been taught. The Revolution did not secure liberty; it opened the door to either liberty or oppression, where only white men enjoyed all of the benefits and protections of citizenship. In A Resistance History of the United States, public historian Tad Stoermer shows how from the very beginning, that tension—between the ideals of resistance and the realities of power—has defined America more than the Enlightenment ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

What does free speech really mean? How does our understanding of it differ around the world? Why does it divide us – and how can we find common ground? What free speech really means is hotly contested. Is it increasingly under attack in our democracies, or is it being weaponized by the...

Vom Ende der Meinungsfreiheit in den USA! Das Buch, das Mark Zuckerberg verbieten will Der sehr unterhaltsame und zugleich hochexplosive Bericht einer jungen Frau aus dem Inneren von Facebook. Nach der Veröffentlichung hat Mark Zuckerberg sofort versucht, das Buch zu verbieten – bislang ohne Erfolg. Es schoss auf Platz eins der Bestsellerliste und wurde von der New York Times zu einem der besten Bücher des Jahres erkoren. Nun darf es endlich auf Deutsch erscheinen. Sarah Wynn-Williams beginnt als junge Frau, bei Facebook zu arbeiten, und macht schnell Karriere.

Across occupied Europe, there existed a hidden world of false papers, whispered passwords, midnight train journeys, secret apartments, mountain guides, and ordinary civilians risking everything to help strangers escape the Nazi system. This is the story of the Comet Line. Across the Silent Frontier reveals one of the most extraordinary civilian rescue operations of the Second World War—the escape network that guided downed Allied airmen from occupied Belgium through France, across the Pyrenees, and into Spain using nothing but courage, secrecy, endurance, and trust.

John Strand is an actor—and not just the Hollywood kind. A child of God and a son of American liberty, this Maverick artist faced a make-or-break choice while pursuing his dreams. That stand against tyranny transformed him into a civil rights actor and the Creative Director at America’s Frontline Doctors, where he joined the founder for a speaking engagement in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. He was then entrapped by the most ruthless partisan operation against American citizens in modern history—becoming a true political prisoner within The Divided States of America.

An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale attempts to build partner militaries in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam cost the United States billions of dollars and ended ignominiously, with the...

Many still see the Vietnam War catastrophe as the ultimate cautionary tale for US presidents faced with wartime decisions. A singular focus on Vietnam, however, overlooks the seismic shift in strategy following attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Ante el despliegue estatal de una invisible y letal 'tecnología de la represión' para borrar sistemáticamente a toda disidencia, un riguroso investigador desentierra los secretos, estructuras e impunidad detrás de las desapariciones forzadas antes de que el olvido institucional borre la...

In June of 2013, Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former CIA employee, leaked thousands of top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents to journalist Glen Greenwald. Branded as a whistleblower, Snowden reignited a debate about private citizens who reveal government secrets that should be exposed but may endanger the lives of others.

The human tragedy unfolding in Gaza has been made all the more tragic by the widespread denial and apathy expressed by much of the rest of the world. Here is an urgent first-hand account of life and death in Gaza, written not by a war correspondent, but an ordinary citizen whose life was upended when the genocide began. In the midst of the chaos, Hassan began posting about his daily experiences on Reddit.

An acclaimed reporter takes us on an unforgettable journey, capturing the human capacity for love and connection against all odds. We live in an era defined by crisis—whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse, or growing inequality, and how the powerful profit from violence and...

Bloomsbury presents Little Blue Dot by Katherine Dunn, read by Laurel Lefkow The unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives. Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that, and...

One of the most powerful defenses of conscience, courage, and moral conviction ever written. In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Henry David Thoreau delivers a passionate and uncompromising response to one of the most controversial events in American history. Written after John Brown's raid on...

As Pan American World Airways teetered on bankruptcy, could the shah of Iran provide the capital to restore it to solvency? Or would his financial bailout endanger the lives of Pan Am’s executives because a religious revolution is brewing? The Plum Thief is the turbulent story of activists who forged a new government in the 1970s by battling Western businessmen in their efforts to topple the shah of Iran.

Il 9 giugno 1956 i generali Tanco e Valle si ribellano alla giunta militare che aveva deposto il presidente Perón. La loro rivolta viene brutalmente e illegalmente repressa e, in una discarica alla periferia della capitale, un gruppo di civili viene fucilato ancor prima che venga dichiarata la legge marziale. Insieme alla collega Enriqueta Muñiz, Walsh comincia a seguire piste, scova i sopravvissuti, ma anche vedove, orfani, rifugiati politici, fuggitivi, presunti informatori ed eroi anonimi, per scoprire cosa è successo davvero quella notte.

From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the world's most precious relics In 1942, as head of the newly formed OSS, Wild Bill Donovan...

Crimes against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages. The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I, "Kill...

Bloomsbury presents Just Plain Filthy by Anthony Aycock, read by John Chancer. With the threat to intellectual freedom increasing around the country, this book takes a look at the first ever school book ban case to be decided by the high courts, and offers insights into how we can use history to...

In the British state, intelligence does not begin with a single founding moment or a clearly defined institution. It begins instead as a tension, a contradiction embedded within the machinery of government itself. Public money is quietly allocated for secret purposes, debated in open parliamentary chambers where the very act of discussion risks undermining the thing being funded. Ministers stand to justify expenditure that cannot be fully explained, offering assurances that the work is necessary while acknowledging, sometimes indirectly, that its details must remain concealed.