This book, more than any other I have read of late, will challenge your concepts of the system in which we live.

Our government is a union of all United States citizens. Everyone is a member. It is the way we organize to efficiently address problems that affect us all.

Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance Minister of Greece, uses the mythological creature to explain how the unsustainable financialization of the world’s assets was a result of the world's governments failure to keep the world’s trade imbalances in check.

David Daley examines how a small cadre of Republican operatives rigged American elections.

This stirring nonfiction graphic novel by Daniel G. Newman and artist George O’Connor takes readers behind the scenes where lawmakers scheme to handpick their voters.

Written by Neal Simon, Contract to Unite America provides specific, practical solutions for an improved government and a better tomorrow.

Written by Richard L. Hasen, this book offers concrete steps that need to be taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic process is completely undermined.

Written by Gilda R. Daniels, this book warns that a premeditated strategy of restrictive laws and deceptive practices has taken root and is eroding the very basis of American democracy—the right to vote!

Written by Lawrence Lessig, this book charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry

Written by Joshua Douglas, this book gives anyone fed up with our current political environment the ideas and tools necessary to affect change in their own communities.

Written by Nancy MacLean, this book is an explosive exposé of the right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution.

Written by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky, this book shows how democracies die—and how ours can be saved.

Written by Anand Giridharadas, this book helps us understand some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.

By Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.

Eric Liu lays out the strategies of reform and revolution to help every reader make sense of our world today.

Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s investigative reporting of the 2016 presidential election for Rolling Stone and BBC television

American investigative journalist Jane Mayer writes about a network of extremely wealthy conservative Republicans, foremost among them Charles and David Koch.

In this powerful work of reportage, Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman, two vigilant watchdogs, expose legalized corruption and link it to the kitchen-table issues citizens face every day

Derek Cressman examines how courts have foiled attempts to limit campaign spending, details what a constitutional amendment limiting paid speech should say, and reveals

Jeff Clements examines how Citizens United v. FEC and related cases have fabricated unprecedented rights and power for corporations and money, at the expense of human beings and democracy itself.

Written by Hendrick Smith, this book describes the consolidation of wealth in the United States, and the dismantling of the middle class.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in America's municipalities.

Howard Zinn presents a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country".

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