Recommended reading
Following are some books that I recommend. For more information, you can click on any that interest you.
The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising
The Populist’s Guide to 2020 examines the populist right and populist left to explain the rise of the Trump and Sanders movements.
read moreHow Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America’s Vanished Voters
Yes, the election’s stolen but investigative reporter Greg Palast shows you how to steal it back!
read moreRecommended 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.
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