Politics and culture, culture and politics. They've never been normal in America, but today they're weirder than ever. Millionaire populists like Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore dominate a political scene spinning ever further from the real world; meanwhile, we look to bizarre experiments like " ... more »

An array of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independent thinkers provide a road map for America's political future. America is at a turning point. For the first time in history, the United States is the world's lone superpower--in Andrew Cuomo's words, both the tamer and target of an unstable world ... more »

In the fall of 1971 William Rehnquist was nominated to fill an Associate Justice seat on the Supreme Court. Using newly released White House tapes, and thousands of previously unseen documents, Dean reveals the making of the man who would preside over the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton and write the ... more »

Dr. Henry Kissinger examines America's relations with Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, in conjunction with emerging concerns such as globalization, nuclear weapons proliferation, free trade, and the planet's eroding natural environment, and explains why we urgently ... more »

On September 11, 2001, the twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, and one side of the Pentagon burst into flames. More than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives. The assault was masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization CNN's terrorism ... more »

Chapter 1 In Defense of Politicians When I was a young reporter covering city hall for the Evening News in Monroe, Michigan, the publisher suggested one day that I should write an occasional editorial on local issues. Fired with the self-righteous certitude of youth, I leaped at the chance. I would straighten ... more »

They met in 1990 during the first Palestinian uprising--one was an American Jew who served as a prison guard in the largest prison in Israel, the other, his prisoner, Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices, they began a dialogue there that grew into a remarkable friendship ... more »

... And the Horse He Rode In On gives the first full accounting of what's really behind the longest-running, most expensive dirty trick in politics: Ken Starr's investigation. James Carville's take on the Starr Report is sure to be a much-read manifesto. As his bestselling We're Right, They're Wrong ... more »

Do you ever wonder if there's a connection between the corruption scandals in the news and the steady decline in the quality of life for millions of Americans? Do you ever wonder what corporations get for the millions of dollars they pour into the American political system? Do you ever think the government ... more »

In The Way to Win , two of the country's most accomplished political reporters explain what separates the victors from the victims in the unforgiving environment of modern presidential campaigns. Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News , and John F. Harris, the national politics editor of The Washington ... more »

The events of September 11, 2001, were an unforgettable tragedy, but they also revealed that the spirit of America is strong and undiminished. Not since the shocking attack on Pearl Harbor has the nation pulled together with such unity and purpose, resolving to endure whatever hardships may be necessary ... more »

The Osama bin Laden I Know is an unprecedented oral history of Osama bin Laden's rise to revered leader of al Qaeda. Peter Bergen takes the reader onto the battlefields of Afghanistan as bin Laden goes from a shy, quiet teen to a leader; he brings you into Osama's intimate family life as he lives under ... more »