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Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi 2019 Can you trust the news media? What are their biases and...

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The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business Nelson D. Schwartz 2019 There has always been an upper class in America. ...

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On August 4th Missouri votes on whether to be the 38th state to expand Medicaid. By all accounts, this should be a no-brainer. Hundreds...

The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind by Jonah Berger 2020 This book makes a bold claim- how to change anyone's mind. With the...

Teeth: Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America by Mary Otto 2017 Why is dental insurance separate from health...

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them ...

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and ...

The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History by Andy Greene 2020 Four of five stars **** Comedy...

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Apropos of Nothing. Autobiography. by Woody Allen 2020 If you were around in the 1970's and 1980's. Woody Allen movies were an enormous...