Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin has established himself as one of America's most distinctively Catholic voices. We have also come to know Breslin as the cocky guy from Queens, New York, who speaks insolently to powerful people and institutions, his words always tinged with a healthy ... more »

Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell--while we're laughing like fiends. A book like this one. Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who's sick and tired of the twenty-first century ... more »

Pick up a newspaper anywhere, any day, and you will find reports of illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, and laundered money or counterfeit goods. Illicit trades are booming and so are the traffickers' revenues--and their political influence. Hamstrung bureaucracies in rich and poor countries ... more »

Das Geld wird knapp, das Wirtschaftsklima rau. Überall wird getrickst und getäuscht, gelogen und betrogen. Handwerker verlangen horrende Honorare, Ärzte rechnen Leistungen ab, die sie gar nicht erbracht haben, die Telekom schickt »versehentlich« überhöhte Rechnungen, an der Supermarktkasse ist die Ware ... more »

Liberalism is the oldest and most enduring American tradition, a philosophy and way of life we inherited from the Founding Fathers. This is the central idea of The Essential America by George McGovern, America's best-known (and most consistent) liberal. Referring us to our moral and spiritual foundations ... more »

In a society ever more obsessed with legal drama, David Boies, the star of a thousand press conferences, stands head and shoulders above the rest. The most prominent trial lawyer in the United States, Boies was catapulted to international prominence when he represented Al Gore before the Supreme Court ... more »

In its final report, the 9/11 Commission famously called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism." To Gerald Posner, the bestselling author of Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 , this is a gross understatement. In his new book, Secrets of ... more »

Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental bestsellers Treason , Slander , and High Crimes and Misdemeanors , Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual in years--and certainly the most controversial. Now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) ... more »

He's been imprisoned, shot at, denounced, shunned, and banned, yet Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams remains resolute in his belief that peace is the only viable option for the Irish people. Adams led the oldest revolutionary movement in Ireland on an extraordinary journey from armed insurrection to active ... more »

Jury duty happens to everyone. When the call came to Graham Burnett, a young historian, he had a shock in store. A Trial by Jury is his startling account of how performing this familiar civic duty challenged him in ways he never thought possible and turned into one of the most consuming experiences of ... more »

"Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak," Paul Wellstone told his students at Carleton College, where he was professor of political science. Wellstone has lived up to his words as the most liberal man in the United States Senate, where for the past decade he has been the ... more »

With It's My America Too , Ben Ferguson, the voice of America's youth and the host of The Ben Ferguson Show , one of the country's fastest-growing syndicated radio shows, delivers his views on all the issues, from politics to current affairs to popular culture. Everyone wants to know what Ferguson will ... more »