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A powerful memoir co-written by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, cofounder of Black Lives Matter and founder and chair of Dignity and Power Now.
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Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
Award-winning NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff lays bare the full truth behind the Trump administration’s systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border
read moreHow to Be an Antiracist
National Book Award–winning author Ibram X. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism.
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This is Ilhan Omar’s story as the first African refugee, Somali-American, and one one the first Muslim women elected to Congress.
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Thomas Piketty’s best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history.
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The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a “Big Other” operating in the interests of surveillance capital.
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Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig’s book is a taut and terrifying account of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date.
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In Where We Go from Here, New York Times bestselling author Bernie Sanders reveals the blueprint for his 2020 presidential run by chronicling the day-by-day struggles that he and his progressive colleagues have waged over the last two years.
read moreIn Defense of Julian Assange
The purpose of this book is to build support for Assange and prevent his extradition and delivery into the hands of the Trump administration. A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day.
read morePermanent Record
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
read moreThe Art and Science of Caregiving: Stories of Inspiring Elders with an End-of-Life Guidebook
In The Art and Science of Caregiving, Annelise Schinzinger helps readers become skilled companions and caregivers.
read moreBuilding the Impossible: A Regugee’s Journey of Giving Back
The book recounts the story of Zebiba Shekhia’s achievement in building a high school for Eritrean refugee girls in Sudan.
read moreSand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border
Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border paints a damning portrait of the U.S.-Mexico border, where militaristic fantasies are unleashed, violent technologies are tested, and immigrants are targeted.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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MANUFACTURING CONSENT: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
In “Manufacturing Consent,” authors Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky argue that Americans have been systematically misled about the substance and morality of US foreign policies.
read moreLight Upon Light: In Search of a Beautiful God
In Light Upon Light: In Search of a Beautiful God, Mickey Weems shares with all of us a deep and personal account of his spiritual journey. He explores Islamic theology, self-reflects on his own experiences, and searches for a greater purpose.
read moreSearching for the White Magician
In Searching for the White Magician Stefania Magidson invites the reader to join her on a journey of exploration and rediscovery of that inner place that holds the lens of mystery through which life filters, if we allow it.
read moreAmerican Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism
As white supremacy, ultra-nationalism, rabid misogyny and anti-immigrant fervor coalesce, a new and uniquely American form of fascism...
read moreThe Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem
The inside story of China’s organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong.
read moreOne Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling–and timely–history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.
read moreGiants: The Global Power Elite
Former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillip unveils the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future.
read moreAmerican Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family
In this powerful book that combines the best aspects of memoir and political history, the son of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and...
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A Nation Unmade by War
As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any...
read moreAmerican Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear
Using his unique lens as a critical race theorist and law professor, Khaled A. Beydoun captures the many ways in which law, policy,...
read moreSchoolhouse Wreck: The Betsy DeVos Story
Authors Jason LInkins and Phil Lewis describe what Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is doing to destroy secular public schools in...
read moreAntifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
In a smart and gripping investigation, historian and former Occupy Wall Street organizer Mark Bray provides a detailed survey of the...
read moreThe Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
In The Captured Economy , Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind breakdowns in democratic governance that...
read moreThe Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of...
read moreStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning is the winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The book is unflinching in showing how...
read moreSleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation
In Sleepwalking to Armageddon, pioneering antinuclear activist Helen Caldicott assembles the world’s leading nuclear scientists and...
read moreBernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
Throughout the Presidential campaign, Senator Bernie Sanders promised voters a future to believe in through his progressive platform...
read moreThe Strip & Flip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft
According to authors Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, the outcome of the 2016 election can be explained by (1) the stripping of...
read moreWitnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo
This searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir’s time inside America’s...
read moreNo Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda—including a...
read moreShattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign
Through deep access to insiders from the top to the bottom of the campaign, political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have...
read moreRigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book,...
read moreThe Verso Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance
Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in...
read moreFour Futures: Life After Capitalism
Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all...
read moreWe’re All Doing Time: A Guide to Getting Free
Often called “The Convict’s Bible,” this book is also relevant and important to any spiritual seeker. Interfaith...
read moreWild Flower – The True Story of a Romanian Girl in Africa
The story of Nina Smart’s life in Africa reads like a thriller. At the tender age of 11 Geanina is asked to choose between her white...
read moreOur Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders had run one of the most consequential campaigns in the modern history of the country. He had received more than 13...
read moreHow Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon By Rosa Brooks
Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of peace. Today, America’s wars are everywhere...
read moreListen Liberal – What Ever Happened To The Party of The People? by Thomas Frank
From the bestselling author of What’s the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics...
read moreJohn Perkins – The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Summary Economic hit men (EHMs) “are highly paid professionals who cheat countries out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include...
read moreYanis Varoufakis – And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
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read moreDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Summary Dark Money is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy. Description Why is America...
read moreAngela Y. Davis – Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
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Summary The New York Times-bestselling book for kids—and their parents, teachers, and cool grown-up friends—documenting America’s...
read moreRobert B. Reich – Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Summary From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date – a passionate yet practical,...
read moreWhen We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World
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read moreThe Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
Summary Here for the first time in print is revealed the quintessential Aaron Swartz: besides being a technical genius and a...
read moreDennis Childs – Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary
Summary A sweeping cultural history of U.S. prison slavery In Slaves of the State Dennis Childs argues that the incarceration of...
read moreNaomi Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Summary A deeply insightful and unflinching look at the global threats posed by climate change, environmental devastation, and...
read moreThomas Piketty – The Economics of Inequality
Summary Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for...
read moreMike Lofgren – The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Summary The book is an insider’s account of who really runs Washington regardless of which party is in power, written by Mike...
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