North Korea makes clear why politics matters
If anyone ever tries to tell you that politics doesn’t matter, I suggest you raise the case...
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Category: Current Events
A fresh and funny look at the Trump Administration
What? Another book about Donald Trump? I’ve already reviewed nearly two dozen of them. So,...
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Is a new American civil war inevitable?
The United States is coming to an end. The question is how. Every government, every business,...
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Good books about economic inequality
Humanity has wrested enough abundance out of Planet Earth to feed, clothe, and house every man,...
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Bob Woodward’s revealing new book about the Trump-Biden transition
Many of the thousands of books about Donald Trump that have seen the light of day in recent...
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This book delivers perspective on the pandemic
If it’s too early for a post-mortem on the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s publishers...
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Assessing the havoc Amazon has created
In two books published over the course of the past decade, Brad Stone has told the inside story of...
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America’s nightmarish response to COVID
The phrase “nightmare scenario” in the title of this rushed exposé of the Trump...
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Why does the West support an African regime gone bad?
In May 2019, my wife and I spent three days in Rwanda’s charming capital city, Kigali, on a...
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The curious lives of the rich and not-so-famous
Back in 1996, a book entitled The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko...
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How the Republican Party became Donald Trump
Amazon lists more than 1,000 books about Donald Trump. And only two US Presidents—George...
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A scholar of Right-Wing politics dissects the Trump coalition
Here’s America’s leading scholar of Right-Wing politics with an up-to-the-minute...
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Racism still kills
Fear and violence directed against “the other” are as old as humanity itself....
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The facts, just the facts, about the world as it really is
In the closing months of his life, as pancreatic cancer worked its painful way through his system,...
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The geopolitical reality behind the “pivot to Asia”
Late in Barack Obama’s first term in the White House, his administration began to execute a...
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