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Politics & Polemics
June 17, 2019
We've Got People
From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
Ryan Grim
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Bill Scher
The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going? Ryan Grim, D.C bureau chief for The Intercept …
Politics & Polemics
May 14, 2019
The Men and the Moment
The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America
Aram Goudsouzian
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Bill Scher
The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram Goudsouzian explores the characters who shaped that race in The Men and the …
Politics & Polemics
May 6, 2019
Digital Civil War
Confronting the Far-Right Menace
Peter Daou
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Bill Scher
Democratic political adviser Peter Daou has long toggled between the world of presidential campaigns and online activism. He worked for the presidential campaigns of John Kerry in 2004 and Hillary …
Politics & Polemics
May 2, 2019
Clear and Present Safety
The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans
Michael A. Cohen
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Bill Scher
We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs. But Michael A. Cohen and his co-author Mich Zenko argue in Clear …
Politics & Polemics
March 13, 2019
The Billionaire Boondoggle
How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs
Pat Garofalo
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Bill Scher
Politicians love to woo entertainment corporations to their states and cities through subsidies and tax cities. But Pat Garofalo argues that such incentives waste taxpayer money in The Billionaire Boondoggle …
Politics & Polemics
February 8, 2019
Camelot’s End
Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party
Jon Ward
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Bill Scher
Yahoo! News Senior Political Correspondent Jon Ward delves into to the oft-forgotten yet starkly dramatic 1980 Democratic presidential primary between President Jimmy Carter and Senator Ted Kennedy in Camelot’s End …
Politics & Polemics
January 14, 2019
Fat Cat
The Steve Mnuchin Story
Rebecca Burns and David Dayen
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Bill Scher
How did a Wall Street executive and “foreclosure king” like Steve Mnuchin become the Treasury Secretary for a populist like Donald Trump, and what is he doing to the country …
Politics & Polemics
December 26, 2018
How We Win
A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
George Lakey
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Bill Scher
“One-off” protests don’t change the world; sustained direct action campaigns do. That’s one of the many insights from George Lakey in his new book, How We Win: A Guide to …
Politics & Polemics
December 10, 2018
The Moralist
Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole
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Bill Scher
Whether you love him or hate him, it is indisputable that few, if any, other 20th-century American presidents were as historically consequential as Woodrow Wilson. Historian Patricia O’Toole explores the …
Politics & Polemics
October 25, 2018
An Uncivil War
Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics
Greg Sargent
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Bill Scher
With many Americas fearing that democracy itself is in trouble, the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent explores remedies to reserve the democratic decline in An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy …
Politics & Polemics
October 17, 2018
TR's Last War
Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
David Pietrusza
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Bill Scher
Teddy Roosevelt had one of the most colorful lives in the American history, but few have deeply explored his final years. Historian David Pietrusza does just that in TR's Last …
Politics & Polemics
October 16, 2018
The Red and The Blue
The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
Steve Kornacki
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Bill Scher
How did American politics become so polarized? MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki points to clash of two larger-than-life characters in the 1990s, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, as the origin of our …
Politics & Polemics
October 11, 2018
They Said No to Nixon
Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power
Michael Koncewicz
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Bill Scher
Is it possible for a president’s political appointees to rein in a president with a penchant for abusing power? Yes. Michael Koncewicz, who listened to hundreds of hours of the …
Politics & Polemics
August 21, 2018
Obama
An Oral History, 2009-2017
Brian Abrams
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Bill Scher
Brian Abrams interviewed more than 100 people – Democrats, Republicans, cabinet officials, White House aides, campaign operatives, congresspeople and activists – to piece together a comprehensive oral history of the …
Politics & Polemics
August 15, 2018
The Constitution Demands It
The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump
Ron Fein
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Bill Scher
Is there a case for the impeachment of Donald Trump? Constitutional attorney Ron Fein says not only is there a case, but also that the case exists regardless of what …
Politics & Polemics
August 8, 2018
Give People Money
How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Annie Lowrey
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Bill Scher
How can we end the scourge of poverty? How we can sustain ourselves once robots eliminate the need for many jobs? Annie Lowrey offers an answer in the title of …
Politics & Polemics
July 13, 2018
The Marginalized Majority
Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America
Onnesha Roychoudhuri
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Bill Scher
The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America (Melville House, 2018) offers a roadmap to reeling progressives, delivers a searing critique of cynical pragmatism and defends identity politics …
Politics & Polemics
June 22, 2018
American Maelstrom
The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
Michael A. Cohen
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Bill Scher
In American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division (Oxford University Press, 2016), Michael A. Cohen shows how the 1968 American presidential election proved to be an “inflection …
Politics & Polemics
June 18, 2018
Soul of a Democrat
The Seven Core Ideals That Made Our Party and Our Country Great
Thomas B. Reston
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Bill Scher
Democrats need to stop their “monomania” over Donald Trump and reconnect with their party’s core ideals to reclaim political power, argues Thomas B. Reston in his book Soul of a …
Politics & Polemics
June 5, 2018
Alt-America
The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
David Neiwert
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Bill Scher
Investigative journalist and Northwest correspondent for the Southern Poverty Law Center, David Neiwert has been covering the radical right-wing for decades. In Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in …
Politics & Polemics
May 30, 2018
It’s Time to Fight Dirty
How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics
David Faris
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Bill Scher
Roosevelt University political science professor David Faris counsels Democrats to disregard procedural precedents and niceties, and pugnaciously wield power in his book, It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can …
Politics & Polemics
May 24, 2018
Civic Hope
How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive
Roderick P. Hart
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Bill Scher
To find out what Americans really think about their government, University of Texas-Austin Professor Roderick P. Hart read and analyzed approximately 10,000 letters to the editor, from 12 “ordinary” cities …
Politics & Polemics
May 18, 2018
The Great Revolt
Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics
Salena Zito and Brad Todd
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Bill Scher
During the 2016, journalist Salena Zito, who is based in Western Pennsylvania, sensed a brewing conservative populist in the white working-class when many thought the election would be determined by …
Politics & Polemics
May 16, 2018
Gaslighting America
Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us
Amanda Carpenter
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Bill Scher
CNN commentator Amanda Carpenter was an early conservative critic of Donald Trump when she was targeted in a smear campaign falsely accusing her of an extramarital affair with Trump’s 201 …
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