Recommended reading
Following are some books that I recommend. For more information, you can click on any that interest you.
Recommended Read: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
A powerful memoir co-written by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, cofounder of Black Lives Matter and founder and chair of Dignity and Power Now.
read moreSeparated: 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.
read moreThis Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
This is Ilhan Omar’s story as the first African refugee, Somali-American, and one one the first Muslim women elected to Congress.
read moreCapital and Ideology
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.
read moreThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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.
read moreTwenty-First Century Socialism (Radical Futures)
In this urgent manifesto for a 21st century left, author Jeremy Gilbert shows that we need a revitalized socialist politics that learns from the past to adapt to contemporary challenges.
read moreA Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America
Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig’s book is a taut and terrifying account of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date.
read moreWhere We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance
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.
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