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A Best Book of 2025
The New Yorker * Foreign Affairs * NPR * Foreign Policy * Responsible Statecraft

Two insiders explain why the Israeli-Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters killed more than eleven hundred Israelis and took more than two hundred hostages, prompting an Israeli response that has in turn taken tens of thousands of lives and devastated the Gaza Strip. Why did this happen, and can anything be done to grant peace and justice to Israelis and Palestinians alike?

In Tomorrow Is Yesterday, veteran negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley offer a personal and bracing perspective on how the hopes of the Oslo Peace Process became the horrors of the present. Drawing on their experience advising the Palestinian leadership (Arafat and Abbas) and US presidents (Clinton, Obama, and Biden) and their participation in secret talks over decades, Agha and Malley offer candid portraits of leading figures and an interpretation of the conflict that exposes the delusions of all sides. They stress that the two-state solution became a global goal only when it was no longer viable; that US officials preferred technical schemes to a frank reckoning with the past; that Hamas's onslaught and Israel's war of destruction were not historical exceptions but historical reenactments; and that the gaps separating Israelis and Palestinians have less to do with territorial allocation than with history and emotions.

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'End State is absolutely superb. If you're looking for a book that is honest about the problems of the future but leaves you hopeful about solutions, then this is it' Jon Richardson

'Insightful and revealing: a brilliant exploration of how ideas currently on the edge of politics could move into the mainstream' Danny Dorling, author of SLOWDOWN

Can we reverse the mental health crisis by getting rid of Mondays?

Is it time to stop poor people being poor by... giving them money?

Can we quell the fires of populism by giving young people a say in the future?

As the shockwaves of Covid 19 continue to spread, and as the smoke clears from a year of anger and unrest, many people feel forlorn about the future.

In End State, James Plunkett argues that this can be a moment not of despair, but of historic opportunity - a chance to rethink, renew, and reform some of the most fundamental ways we organise society. In much the same way as societies emerged stronger from crises in the past - building the state as we know it today - we too can build a happier future.

James Plunkett has spent his career thinking laterally about the complicated relationships between individuals and the state. First as an advisor to Gordon Brown, then a leading economic researcher and writer, and then in the charity sector, helping people struggling at the front-line of economic change. James combines a deep understanding of social issues with an appreciation of how change is playing out not in the ivory tower, but in the reality of people's lives.

Now, in his first book, he sets out an optimistic vision, exploring nine ways in which our social settlement can be upgraded to harness the power of the digital age. Covering a dizzying sweep of geography and history, from London's 18th Century sewage systems to the uneasy inequality of Silicon Valley, it's a thrilling and iconoclastic account of how society can not only survive, but thrive, in the digital age.

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A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years

At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done.

It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition. Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself: how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out. And how, by the time Johnson arrived, it had dwindled into a body that merely responded to executive initiatives, all but impervious to the forces of change. Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all-powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term-the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate's hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the \"unchangeable\" Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron-fisted control.

Caro demonstrates how Johnson's political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust--or at least the cooperation--of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency. He shows the dark side of Johnson's ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds. And we watch him achieve the impossible: convincing southerners that although he was firmly in their camp as the anointed successor to their leader, Richard Russell, it was essential that they allow him to make some progress toward civil rights. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson's amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875.

Master of the Senate, told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caro's peerless research, is both a galvanizing portrait of the man himself--the titan of Capital Hill, volcanic, mesmerizing--and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings and personal and legislative power.",{"_809":825,"_811":836,"_782":837},{"_809":825,"_811":839,"_782":1192},"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group",{"_809":825,"_811":816,"_782":842},{"_809":825,"_811":844,"_782":845},{"_809":825,"_811":847,"_782":848},{"_809":825,"_811":1016,"_782":1197},"BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY; POLITICAL LEADERS & LEADERSHIP",{"_809":825,"_811":850,"_782":1199},"2003-04-25",{"_809":825,"_811":853,"_782":1201},"1232",{"_809":825,"_811":819,"_782":1203},"Vintage",{"_809":856,"_811":344,"_782":1023},{"_809":856,"_811":859,"_782":1025},{"_809":856,"_811":861,"_782":1025},{"_809":856,"_811":863,"_782":1208},"02/02/2026",{"_809":856,"_811":866,"_782":1210},"60.0",{"_809":856,"_811":868,"_782":1032},{"_809":871,"_811":872,"_782":1213},"Biography,Politics",{"_809":871,"_811":344,"_782":1215},"Biography;Politics",{"_809":871,"_811":876,"_782":1217},"BIOGRA,POLITI",{"_809":871,"_811":878,"_782":1219},"BIOGRA;POLITI",{"_809":871,"_811":880,"_782":1221},"BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR,POLITICS",{"_809":871,"_811":883,"_782":1223},"BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR;POLITICS",{"_809":871,"_811":885,"_782":1221},{"_809":871,"_811":887,"_782":1223},{"_809":871,"_811":889,"_782":890},{"_809":871,"_811":892,"_782":1228},"BIO",{"_809":871,"_811":895,"_782":1228},{"_759":1231},[1232],{"_762":109,"_763":-5,"_123":1233,"_203":1234,"_773":1238,"_779":1239,"_17":1168,"_783":1241,"_785":1242},"gid://shopify/ProductVariant/45743076901061",{"_766":1235,"_768":769,"_123":1236,"_755":1171,"_771":1237},"Master of the Senate Cover Image","gid://shopify/ProductImage/41095782564037",1356,{"_775":776,"_777":1210},[1240],{"_744":745,"_782":1168},"9780394720951",{"_787":1243},[1244,1247],{"_790":1245},{"_792":109,"_126":1246},{"_744":341},{"_790":1248},{"_792":36,"_126":1249},{"_744":722},{"_123":1251,"_17":1252,"_735":1253,"_753":1254,"_806":1256,"_757":1316},"gid://shopify/Product/8550365921477","Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction","decolonizing-economics-an-introduction",{"_755":1255},"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0625/6679/3413/files/978-1-5095-4548-3.jpg?v=1767579109",[1257,1258,1260,1261,-5,1263,1265,1266,1268,1270,1272,1274,1276,1278,1279,1280,-5,1281,1283,1285,-5,-5,1287,-5,1288,1289,-5,1290,-5,1292,-5,1293,1294,-5,1296,1298,-5,1300,1302,-5,1304,1306,-5,1308,1310,-5,1311,1313,-5,1315],{"_809":810,"_811":17,"_782":1252},{"_809":810,"_811":813,"_782":1259},"DUTT DEVIKA",{"_809":810,"_811":816,"_782":1081},{"_809":810,"_811":819,"_782":1262},"POLITY",{"_809":810,"_811":1085,"_782":1264},"WILE",{"_809":825,"_811":826,"_782":827},{"_809":825,"_811":17,"_782":1267},"Decolonizing Economics",{"_809":825,"_811":1001,"_782":1269},"An Introduction",{"_809":825,"_811":813,"_782":1271},"Devika Dutt; Carolina Alves; Surbhi Kesar; Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven",{"_809":825,"_811":833,"_782":1273},"

Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention.

Dutt, Alves, Kesar, and Kvangraven uncover the deeply Eurocentric foundations that shape how economists study the world today. These have rendered the discipline ill-equipped to tackle critical questions, such as structural racism, uneven development, the climate crisis, labour relations, and how structural power shapes economic outcomes. Decolonizing economics entails challenging the norms of neutrality and objectivity that economists claim to speak from, while fostering alternative ways of understanding the economy that take seriously structural power relations and contemporary processes of economic development. Readers will come to understand the political stakes of decolonization and the wide range of scholarship that already exists that can help us grasp economics from non-Eurocentric perspectives. Through such scholarship, we can gain an enriched understanding of capitalism and its relationship to exploitation, colonialism, and racialization.

The author order is randomized. All authors contributed equally to the book.

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Left's War On Reality

by Michael Shellenberger & Alex Gutentag