Political Polarization

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    • Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
    • By: Amanda Ripley
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ripley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 695 ratings
    • In this book, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free....

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    • How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
    • By: David Pakman
    • Narrated by: David Pakman
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 03-25-25
    • Language: English
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    • Popular radio and podcast host David Pakman examines how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracy.

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    • How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
    • By: Peter T. Coleman
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Social psychologist Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences....

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    • A Path to Resolving Political Polarization in the United States
    • By: Jeff Schuster
    • Narrated by: Jeff Schuster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
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    • Every week, political pundits publish books promoting one side (the pundit’s) as good, and the other side as evil. Whether the pundit promotes a liberal or conservative view, the book convinces zealots, and annoys everyone else....

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    • Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations
    • By: Michael A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • As increasingly contentious politics in the United States raise concerns over the "politicization" of traditionally non-partisan institutions, many have turned their attention to how the American military has been—and will be—affected by this trend....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Nolan McCarty
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know Nolan McCarty takes listeners through what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of our rising political conflicts....

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    • How Political Polarization Divided America and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Jason Altmire
    • Narrated by: Doug Greene
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Rarely has America been so bitterly divided. Partisans now view those with differing opinions as the enemy. Cable news programs inflame passions rather than inform viewers. Social media provides the most irrational partisans a venue to spew their hatred and bias....

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    • How to Conquer Political Idolatry, Reject Polarization, and Recommit to God's Greatest Two Commandments
    • By: Aaron Schafer
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 08-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And ...

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    • Conservatives vs Liberals: Why Neither Side Can Win
    • By: Don Durrett
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Durrett has written a potent and excoriating view of the current state of American politics. He provides analysis of why both the conservatives and...

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    • Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
    • By: Richard Hanania
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Richard Hanania has emerged as one of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down....

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    • How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World
    • By: Justin Lee
    • Narrated by: Justin Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • A guide to learning how to communicate with people who have diametrically opposed opinions from you, how to empathize with them, and how to (possibly) change their minds....

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    • How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (Studies in Postwar American Political Series)
    • By: Hyrum Lewis, Verlan Lewis
    • Narrated by: Hyrum Lewis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis presents a groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first-century America and a major source of the confusion and hostility that characterize contemporary political discourse....

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    • A History of the United States Since 1974
    • By: Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • How did the US become so divided? Fault Lines offers a richly told, wide-angle history view toward an answer....

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    • Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
    • By: Andy Norman
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Astonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. Covid denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. Conspiracy thinking hijacks minds and incites mob violence....

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    • How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
    • By: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed....

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    • By: Alexander Plansky
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • A murder at a quantum computing firm leads a hacker and an FBI agent into a race against the clock—before a polarized America reaches its ...

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    • A New Psychology of American Polarization
    • By: Matthew D. Luttig
    • Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • American politics today can be defined by the intense and increasingly toxic divide between Democrats and Republicans. Matthew D. Luttig explores why so many Americans have endorsed this level of political conflict....

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