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Just the Facts

The First Step in Building a National Strategic Agenda for America

by No Labels Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

“No Labels has the answer for how we unite this country and put it back on the path to prosperity and progress. The how is the NATIONAL STRATEGIC AGENDA. And JUST THE FACTS is essential reading for anyone who wants to help build this agenda. If you want to understand how America got itself into...
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by Carol Leonnig, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

The Secret Service has one of the most important jobs in the United States. In this Pulitzer Prize winning investigation, Carol Leonnig’s exposes the dereliction of duty that has put the President—and the nation—at risk. In September of 2014, a man leapt the White House fence, ran across the lawn,...
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by The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012

The long and secret effort to track down Osama bin Laden has been called the biggest, costliest manhunt in history. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post, this reconstruction- compiled from reporting from more than two-dozen Washington Post correspondents and staffers from over more than 15...
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Zero Day

The Threat In Cyberspace

by Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

Will the world’s next war be fought in cyberspace?"It's going to happen," said former National Defense University Professor Dan Kuehl. So much of the world’s activity takes place on the internet now – including commerce, banking and communications -- the Pentagon has declared war in cyberspace...
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NSA Secrets

Government Spying in the Internet Age

by The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013

The NSA's extensive surveillance program has riveted America as the public questions the threats to their privacy. As reported by The Washington Post, in their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of whistleblower Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, NSA SECRETS delves into the shadowy world of information gathering, exposing how data about you is being gathered every day.
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The Bryce Harper Story

Rise of a Young Slugger

by The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012

Bryce Harper’s unprecedented ascent to the major leagues, from a 17-year-old first overall draft pick to a headline-creating, 19-year-old rookie center fielder for the Washington Nationals, dropped him into the middle of the best season of D.C. baseball since the Great Depression. Washington Post sports...
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The Permanent War

Rise of the Drones

by The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated examination of the United States drone campaign, and U.S. counterterrorism policies. On January 30, 2013, President Barack Obama acknowledged publicly what most Americans already knew: The U.S. government was operating a covert drone campaign in Pakistan. Even as...
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Holiday Cookies

45 of our Best Recipes

by The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014

THE WASHINGTON POST shares some of its favorite recipes, culled from nine years of annual Holiday Cookies editions. This collection features 45 fun and delicious make-ahead recipes, including traditional sugar cookies, spiced cookies, low-fat cookies, no-bakes, gluten-free and more—all with full-color photos.
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Ferguson

Three Minutes that Changed America

by The Washington Post, Wesley Lowery
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015

From the Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post comes a meticulously detailed, insightful report on the killing that brought the nation's attention to a city coming apart at the seams. 12:00PM: Officer Darren Wilson turns his Chevy Tahoe police cruiser left on Canfield Drive. 12:01PM: Wilson orders two...
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by Gene Weingarten, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. What happens when one of the world’s most renowned musicians appears incognito outside of a Washington, D.C. metro station to play some of the most beautiful music ever composed? In the audacious social experiment, “Pearls Before Breakfast”,...
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Generation Z

What It's Like to Grow up in the Age of Likes, LOLs, and Longing

by The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

From the Washington Post comes a fascinating profile of the digital native generation. For the generation after Millennials, technology has been the only way of life since birth. These children are the first group to have their formative moments chronicled on Facebook, to grow up surrounded by the ubiquity...
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by Sally Jenkins, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...
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The Threatened Net

How the Web Became a Perilous Place

by The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

The Internet can appear to be elegantly designed, but as The Washington Post’s Craig Timberg demonstrated in his illuminating series “Net of Insecurity,” the network is much more an assemblage of kludges—more Frankenstein than Ferrari—that endure because they work, or at least work well enough....
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Fall Dining Guide

Washington DC Area, 2013

by Tom Sietsema, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013

Washington D.C.'s culinary landscape is celebrated in the 14th annual Fall Dining Guide.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post comes the food critic's essential guide to the D.C. dining scene. For his 14th Fall Dining Guide, Tom Sietsema selects his 40 favorite Washington D.C.-area restaurants,...
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