Politics & Current Events

I'm a Shooting Star Leaping Through the Sky

Michael Lewis and seven other authors tell stories of exemplary federal employees doing inspiring work and delivering exceptional public service

Freedom, freedom, where are you?

Kamala Harris on her unique, time-shortened campaign for the presidency

It Would Take A Strong, Strong Man

Jacob Heilbrunn explores a century of the American Right's romance with foreign dictators

I'm Giving My Best to You Lord

Jimmy Carter, from birth to post-presidency in Jonathan Alter's 2021 biography of our nation's 39th President

Has the Tipping Point Tipped Over?

Malcolm Gladwell's latest doesn't pack the punch of his earlier works...

The Country's Best Governor Wrote a Book

Ok, I may be a little biased...

Low-Hanging Fruit

Randy Rainbow brings his whines and his wit to the page

One Year of Dobbs

Amanda Becker takes us across the country to survey the impact of the Dobbs decision in its first year.

Cold War with China

A cyber (and national) security expert makes the case that we are already in the midst of a Cold War with China

Six to Three

The overreach of our current conservative Supreme Court and how we as a nation have gotten here

The Candidate As Background

An autobiographical novel of a young man's coming of age while working on the 2008 presidential campaign of a young black Senator referred to as "The Candidate".

How Capitalism is Crushing Democracy and What to Do About It

Author Raymond Baker offers a convincing argument about the negative influence of dirty money and financial secrecy on democracy

The January 6th Insurrection Through the Eyes of a Capital Defender

Washington DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone tells his story of life as a cop, and what he experienced as MAGA forces stormed the nation's capital

One Fiction and One Nonfiction

Book Reviews of To Govern the Globe and The Maid

ARC Review - The Great Escape

ARC Review: Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) From An Ink-Stained Life

Book Review: Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

ARC Review: Parallel Metaverses: How the US, China and the Rest of the World Are Shaping Different Virtual Worlds

Book Review: Pure America: Eugenics & the Making of Modern Virginia

ARC Review: They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

Book Review: The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945 – 2020

Book Review: The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Book Review: Spies, Lies and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence