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Russ Feingold is a rarity in American politics. A staunch civil libertarian, he was the only member of the U.S. Senate who voted against the ill-conceived USA Patriot Act that was rushed through Congress in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. In 2002, while the Bush administration's fabrications and scare tactics persuaded an overwhelming majority of the Senate to vote for the Iraq war resolution, Feingold opposed it. Washington insiders thought such controversial votes could doom Feingold's 2004 reelection. But he won by a near landslide, far outdistancing his party's presidential candidate, John Kerry. Sanford D. Horwitt writes in this timely, compelling independent biography t...
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Is the future of humanity a bright one? Or is it looking bleak? This generation is engulfed by a tidal wave of unprecedented, unfathomable change. As we grapple with the ubiquity of digital technology and the consequences of the current climate crisis, we are left pondering the question: what does the future look like for humankind? Visionary author Ryan Riley picks apart this question in a cutting-edge collection of short science fiction stories about the world we're creating for ourselves. Is it a world of machines that want to be treated like humans? Is it a world where water is the currency of life? A world where non-digitized art is rare? A world of too many people, and too few bodies? ...