Current Affairs

Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast.

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
If Russia Wins: A Scenario
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Autocracy, Inc.
Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
L'heure des prédateurs
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
The Yahoo Boys: Real Life with the Love Scammers of Lagos
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Fear: Trump in the White House
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Between the World and Me
Autocracy, Inc.
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zero-Sum Mindset by Rainer ZitelmannBlood River by Tim ButcherCommon Sense Ain’t So Common by Scott  L. NelsonThe Trigger by Tim ButcherLucky by Scott Nelson
Non-fiction Best
264 books — 157 voters
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinNature's Last Dance by Natalie KyriacouMerchants of Doubt by Naomi OreskesThe Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Best Climate Change Books
295 books — 187 voters

مصرائيل by أحمد جمال الدين رمضانمزرعة الحيوانات by George Orwellقصر الكلام by جلال عامردور الصدفة والغباء في تغيير مجرى التاريخ by Erik Durschmiedالكرنك by Naguib Mahfouz
For a Better Egypt
181 books — 117 voters
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiCollapse by Jared DiamondPapyrus by John Gaudet
Green Politics
108 books — 94 voters


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“ Until there is a common vocabulary and a shared historical memory, there is no peace in any society, only an absence of war... The search for a common narrative must, at times, be forced upon a society. Few societies seem able to do this willingly. ”
― Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

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