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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd	Gay is Good for Business: LGBTQ Rights and the Economic Development of America’s Cities and Suburbs	Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks
Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?	The American Dream after COVID-19	The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis
How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure	The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State	Trade Wars: The Collapse of America's Free Trade Consensus
The United States, China, and the Money Question	Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina	The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?
A New World Order? Africa and China	"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms	Socialism Takes Over France, Again?
From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics	Russia and the Race for the Arctic	Climate, Human Population and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future
Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment	Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America	The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking
Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal	Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money	South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 Election
The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy	Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis	Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis
1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe	Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population	Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America
A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters	(Fore)Closing on the American Dream	Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya
When Free Trade Meant Something Else	Borne by the Waves: The Ocean’s Role in Global Trade	Inequality After Apartheid
Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies	Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution	"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism
Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?	There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies	"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?	Natural Laws and Predatory Lending for 3000 Years	Fifty Years and Counting
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex	What to Do About the Money?	Blood and Steel
The Gifts That Keep On Giving	The Man Who Re-Invented China	Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book
Wagging the Dog	All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire	Between the East and the West
Invisible Man	Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking	Playing Politics with Our Children's Health
The Suez Crisis (1956)	Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies	The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath
Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism	The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response	COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation	当前委内瑞拉危机的历史根源	Las raíces del estado de fallido venezolano

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