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  The Isolated Presidency

  Jordan T. Cash

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  How powerful is the President of the United States? For many scholars, this is a question that can be answered only by considering factors outside the office itself, such as the president's popularity, personal clout, political talents, or institutional relationships. 
   
   
   
  In The Isolated Presidency, Jordan T. Cash reframes this question to instead ask what authority is available to all presidents. Drawing on the Constitution itself, Cash argues that the presidency possesses an internal logic derived from its structure, duties, and powers which not only grants the president a unique institutional perspective, but also provides the president with considerable agency and discretion in pursuing agendas. 
   
   
   
  To gain a clear view of how the Constitution creates a baseline of authority that is available to all presidents, Cash examines the "isolated presidents"—presidents who were unelected, faced divided government, and were opposed by major factions of their own political parties. Stripped of all external supports, these presidents were left with nothing but their constitutional authority to rely on. Through three case studies of isolated presidents, Cash illustrates how the Constitution creates an empowering logic within the presidency which orients presidential behavior and grants every president significant power and agency.

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  Wage Labour and Capital

  Karl Marx

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  *Wage-Labour and Capital* by Karl Marx is a foundational text in Marxist economic theory that explores the exploitative dynamics of capitalist societies. Originally delivered as a series of lectures, the work delves into the relationship between wage laborers and capitalists, emphasizing how workers sell their labor power for wages that merely sustain their existence, while the capitalists appropriate the surplus value created by the workers. Marx unpacks the mechanisms of capital accumulation, the commodification of labor, and the inherent inequalities that sustain the capitalist system. Serving as a precursor to his seminal work *Das Kapital*, this concise and accessible text provides a critical framework for understanding the economic forces underpinning modern industrial society and the cyclical crises that arise from its contradictions.

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  Trust Signals

  Scott Baradell

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  What is a trust signal?Let’s say you’re interested in a book you aren’t familiar with—this book, for example. Before you buy it, you wonder, “Can I trust this author?” Can you trust that their book will be worth your money and your time?The author, in turn, tries to prove their trustworthiness in a number of ways:An accomplished and relevant biographyGlowing praise from well-known people on the coverFive-star reviews on AmazonAcclaim on social media by people you followCoverage in news media outlets you know and respectThese are examples of trust signals, the points of evidence that individuals, companies, and brands use to win one another’s trust.Mastering these signals is the single best way to build, grow, and protect your brand in today’s post-truth world—where trust is the most precious commodity of all.

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  Getting Beyond Trump - It’s Well...

  Douglas Giles

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  Someone suggested to me that I write a follow-up to my book, Why Trump? I never stopped publishing articles online about the right wing and how to respond to it, but that someone was correct; I needed to do more. It is now two years after Why Trump? Some things have changed, but the underlying situation remains the same. The right wing is still turning the United States into a two-tiered society, and worse, there is no effective opposition to the right wing. 
  America isn’t the way it is because Trump is president. Trump is president because America is the way it is. Trump became president within a system. He’s responsible for his actions, but it is a system that allowed, if not enabled, him to gain power. Trump is a symptom. If Trump is wrong, then something is also wrong with the American system that is enabling his wrongdoing. 
  What is an effective opposition to Trump’s and the right wing's extremism? It’s certainly not simplistic sloganeering, name-calling, and memes. I don’t suggest that we not oppose Trump’s excesses, but unless you are also willing to oppose the wrongs that are historically entrenched in the United States’ political and legal systems that enable Trump and the right wing, you are, in the end, also enabling Trump—and future Trumps, who just might be worse. 
  Thinking Trump was the problem has led to bigger problems. We need to get beyond Trump. We need to deal with causes more than with symptoms. Addressing the root causes of problems is the road to solving them. To recognize root causes, we need a clearer understanding of US society and its history. 
  I don’t provide easy answers because there are none. Avoiding the temptation of easy answers is one of the guiding principles of this book. We don’t need labels, slogans, and memes; we need to be open-minded and clear-eyed about what is happening and why. Only then will we be able to start extricating ourselves from the current morass of echo chambers and start building a better politics and society.

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  Enemy Feminisms - TERFs...

  Sophie Lewis

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  In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need. 
   
   
   
  Sophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from nineteenth century imperial feminists and police officers to twentieth century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist. Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategizing that is truly antifascist. 
   
   
   
  At once a left transfeminist battle cry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.

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  Two Tactics Of Social Democracy

  Vladimir Lenin, Eden Garret

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  A landmark political work by Vladimir Lenin, Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution, examines the strategy, direction, and future of revolutionary movements during one of the most turbulent periods in Russian history. 
   
  Written during the Revolution of 1905, Lenin’s work explores the conflict between reform and radical transformation, arguing that political change cannot succeed through compromise alone. With sharp analysis and uncompromising logic, he outlines competing revolutionary strategies within the socialist movement and presents his vision for how workers and peasants could unite to overthrow autocratic rule. 
   
  Combining political philosophy, historical analysis, and revolutionary theory, this work remains essential listening for students of history, political thought, Marxism, and the origins of modern revolutionary movements.

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