Best books in Politics & Society
From Machiavelli to Hannah Arendt, from Tocqueville to contemporary debates on democracy. Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky and Fareed Zakaria lead this category — and rarely agree with each other, which makes their selections all the more revealing.
Global Catastrophes and Trends
Vaclav Smil
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China airborne
James Fallows
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Walkable City
Jeff Speck
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Fifty Million Rising
Saadia Zahidi
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Upheaval
Jared Diamond
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Collusion across the Jordan
Avi Shlaim
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How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky
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How Trump Is Making Black America Great Again
Horace Cooper
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Condemned to repetition
Robert A. Pastor
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Conflicting missions
Piero Gleijeses
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Confronting the Third World
Gabriel Kolko
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Collusion
Luke Harding
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Communication and Cultural Domination, by Herbert I. Schiller
Herbert I. Schiller
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Cuz
Danielle S. Allen
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
Jason Stearns
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Collateral Damage
Cynthia Peters
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Give People Money
Annie Lowrey
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Truth decay
Michael D. Rich
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Defender in Chief
John Yoo
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Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe
Sheri Berman
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Democracy for Realists
Christopher H. Achen
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Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel
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After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?
Jonathan C. Randal
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God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
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