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Fear: Trump in the White House
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Just Mercy
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
How to Be an Antiracist
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiThe Education of an Idealist by Samantha PowerTough Love by Susan  RiceWith All Due Respect by Nikki R. HaleyMadam Secretary by Madeleine K. Albright
Women in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Tuskegee Experiments by Michael V. UschanTime to Think by Hannah BarnesSickening by John AbramsonBad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
Medical and Psychiatric Scandals
65 books — 6 voters

#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawFracking by Kathryn   Hulick#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawThe War on Poverty by Carolee LaineThe Syrian Conflict by Michael Capek
Special Reports series
44 books — 8 voters
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Fresh Air 2019 (Jan-June)
53 books — 14 voters

The Constitution of the United States of America by Founding FathersThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnCollected Writings by Thomas Paine
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
934 books — 1,097 voters
Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. SteeleEbola in the Burbs by T.C. TuckerWash Your Hands! by Alice StarzlThe Promise of World Peace by Universal House of JusticeSon of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
Books on the Issues of Our Time
12 books — 5 voters

Matt Taibbi
... Americans were now supposed to make their own sense of the world. There was no dependable authority left to turn to, no life raft in the increasingly perilous informational sea. This coincided with an age when Americans now needed to understand more of the world than ever before. A factory worker in suburban Ohio now needed to understand the cultures of places like Bangalore and Beijing if he wanted to know why he'd lost his job. Which, incidentally, he probably had. Now broke, or under seve ...more
Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

Robert Brockway
Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling matters as the avoidance of space bullets, so they won't give NASA the money ...more
Robert Brockway

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