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Shantanu Gupta travels back into the history of the Right-wing movements in India, from their ideological origins to the evolution of their nationalist idea, bringing together a comprehensive study of not just BJP as a political party but of an ideological entity which defines the nationalist movement in the country like never before. 

In her New York Times best seller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice. 

Bernie Sanders' campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized supporters all over the country, drawing attention to issues of economic, racial, and social justice and spotlighting one of the most interesting and unconventional candidates in decades.

Da sempre nell'immaginario collettivo, di grandi e bambini, il sindaco è il politico a cui si fa riferimento per tutto, quello chiamato a risolvere ogni problema della comunità in cui viviamo. Ormai sono passati 25 anni da quando, nel giugno 1993, fu istituita l'elezione diretta del sindaco, che da allora è il vero raccordo fra l'elettorato e il governo centrale, colui che cerca di mediare tra le forze opposte per il bene della sua città. Il proprio sindaco lo si ama o lo si odia, ma in ogni caso su di lui si può misurare concretamente la distanza fra le promesse e le cose fatte.

Bill Ayers was born into privilege and is today a highly respected educator and community activist. In the late 1960s he was a founder of the militant activist group the Weather Underground. Living on the run, stealing explosives, and hiding from the law, Ayers was involved in the defining moments of his generation: the Days of Rage, SDS, the Black Panthers - and the explosion that killed his beloved comrade, Diana Oughton.

Un llamamiento a la unidad frente a la fragmentación promovida por el actual activismo o cómo el neoliberalismo fragmentó la identidad de la clase trabajadora.... 

In an era of stark racial injustice and decisive action, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to the struggle for change, founding the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968 at age 19. Through his eyes, we see the courage of a generation that stood up to injustice, their political triumphs and tragedies, and the unforgettable legacy of Black Power.

Enter Hillary Clinton: a seasoned politician with a slick PR team and the majority of the world's media behind her. Now enter Donald Trump: a brash reality TV star with a penchant for aggressive outbursts on Twitter. Even if these aren't the most obvious ingredients for a presidential race, surely the outcome is a given? Yet in one of the most incredible upsets in modern political history, Donald Trump defied the odds and emerged triumphant, leaving his opponent - and the rest of the world - reeling from her shock defeat. But where did it all go so wrong for Clinton?

With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives, including Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, and Chris Jankowski, began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks - known to political insiders as "ratf**king" - to a whole new unprecedented level.

This is an audio recording of Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment, issued by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and the Majority Staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary on December 7, 2019.

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy - the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups to power.

There was entertainment at the Republican Gala on Sunday night. The climax was a full marching band of bagpipers. They must have been hired for the week since one kept hearing them on the following days, and at all odd times, heard them even in my hotel room at four am for a few were marching in the streets of San Francisco, sounding through the night, giving off the barbaric evocation of the Scots, all valor, wrath, firmitude, and treachery - the wild complete treachery of the Scots finding its way into the sound of the pipes.

Ignacio Stampa fue el involuntario protagonista de un conjunto de acontecimientos de enorme repercusión mediática durante su intervención como fiscal anticorrupción en el llamado caso Tándem o caso Villarejo. Fiel a sí mismo, decidió hacer frente a diferentes estamentos y a quienes, desde la cúpula de la Fiscalía General del Estado, se confabularon por oscuros intereses particulares para provocar que su profesionalidad quedara en entredicho y no continuara con dicha investigación.

Quest for the Presidency is an engaging and insightful popular history of American presidential elections from 1789 to the present, analyzing the threads that link campaigns across time and shedding light on today’s politics.

Gli esperti di politica fanno sempre più fatica a orientarsi in un territorio mobile, di cui è facile smarrire la mappa. Anche perché concentrano l'attenzione sui protagonisti della ribalta politica - i governi, le istituzioni, i partiti - e trascurano il retroscena sociale. In particolare, ignorano quei "microclimi d'opinione" che improntano i mondi locali e i rapporti interpersonali. In questo modo, però, molti fenomeni diventano invisibili e inspiegabili.

"Sin complejos" aborda el análisis de la situación actual desde la experiencia de los casi cuarenta años de vida política en primera fila de Esperanza Aguirre, quien hace un llamamiento a todas las fuerzas de centro derecha a iniciar un periodo de reflexión con vistas a reagruparse. Porque solo una derecha sin complejos, unida, que plante cara a los dogmas de lo políticamente correcto y esté humildemente orgullosa de la Historia de España, puede ofrecer una alternativa ilusionante y atractiva a los españoles.

EL CONOCIMIENTO ES PODER. ÁRMESE USTED MISMO. #GUERRASDELAINFORMACIÓN. Durante los tres últimos años de la administración Obama, Richard Stengel, exeditor de la revista "Time" y subsecretario de Estado, estuvo en la primera línea de la nueva guerra de información global. En aquel momento, fue la única persona del Gobierno encargada de deshacer, negar y combatir tanto los mensajes de ISIS como la desinformación rusa.

«Poderoso caballero es don Dinero», escribió Quevedo hace 400 años, y la frase parece más actual que nunca en esta fascinante investigación sobre el peso del poder económico en la política chilena. Gracias a un reporteo detallado y revelador, la investigación de Daniel Matamala nos abre la trastienda del poder para mostrar cómo opera un puñado de grupos empresariales en sus intentos de capturar la democracia en su beneficio.

Desde la valentía y la reflexión, Rosa Díez convierte "La demolición" en un alegato contra la indiferencia y en una apelación a favor de la resistencia y de la acción en defensa de lo común. Nos da todos los datos que demuestran la gran traición de Pedro Sánchez a la democracia española y sus consecuencias para el futuro de los españoles.

El 1 de junio de 2018, con el triunfo de la moción de censura contra Mariano Rajoy, cambia la historia de España. El Partido Popular queda desmadejado en sus entrañas. Y el enfrentamiento a muerte de dos de sus principales dirigentes, la vicepresidenta y la secretaria general, posibilitan la llegada al puente de mando de un joven líder: Pablo Casado. Graciano Palomo, experto analista político, especialista en el centro derecha, responde en este libro a muchas de las preguntas que se han hecho todos los españoles.