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Blog / ChangeThis
Shareholder Value as Yesterday’s Idea
By Rebecca Henderson
Markets only create genuine freedom of opportunity if everyone has the chance to play. When unchecked markets leave too many people too far behind, they destroy the freedom of opportunity that is fundamental to their own legitimacy.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | July 14, 2020
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968
By Porchlight
A timely work of groundbreaking history explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
A free press is foundational to a free society. We have gone too far in trading ours for the Silicon Valley notion that information wants to be free, even as Silicon Valley has built some of the world’s largest, most monopolistic corporations monetizing that supposedly “free” information.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / ChangeThis
American Aristocracy
By Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn
Researchers have found that … in countries around the world, the accumulation of wealth also often leads to accumulation of political power that is then harnessed to multiply that wealth. Indeed, that’s what we’re seeing in America.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | July 7, 2020
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
By Porchlight
The first hopeful book about climate change, THE FUTURE EARTH shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Declaration of Independence
By Porchlight
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. For all the high ideals he provided the document and our country, he was also, like the majority of signatories to the Declaration, a slave owner. There were also ardent abolitionists in the group that signed the document, but they were outnumbered. It is representative of the contradiction and conflict between America’s original sin and its original promise that still courses through our lives and politics today.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | June 30, 2020
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Using Authority, Warmth, and Energy to Get Exceptional Results
By Porchlight
One of the nation's premier talent agents and career advisors shows you how to catapult your career and your life forward with three key communication strategies—Authority, Warmth, and Energy.
Categories: giveaways