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How Did We Get Here Again?

Donald Trump has been elected (again). These are key books for understanding how we got here.

7 November 2024

How Did We Get Here Again?

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  • The Management of Savagery

    The Management of Savagery

    by Max Blumenthal

    Since the 1970s, Washington has been secretly funding some of the worst terrorists in the Middle East. America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enemies such as Bin Laden...
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  • American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

    American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

    by Perry Anderson

    Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the dive...
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  • The Romance of American Communism

    The Romance of American Communism

    by Vivian Gornick

    “Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in t...
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  • The Wages of Whiteness

    The Wages of Whiteness

    by David R. Roediger

    Preface by Priyamvada Gopal

    Introduction by Kathleen Cleaver

    An enduring history of how race and class came together to mark the course of the antebellum US and our present crisis. Roediger shows that in a nation pledged to independence, but less and less ab...
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  • The Muslims Are Coming!

    The Muslims Are Coming!

    by Arun Kundnani

    The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United Stat...
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  • Policing the Planet

    Policing the Planet

    Contributions by Mizue Aizeki, Kafui Attoh, Breanna Champion, Becky Dennison, Martín Espada, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Christina B. Hanhardt, Justin Hansford, Rachel Herzing, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Anjali Kamat, Robin D.G. Kelley, Hamid Khan, Arun Kundnani, Marisol Lebrón, George Lipsitz, Page May, Don Mitchell, Naomi Murakawa, Steven Osuna, Vijay Prashad, Asha Rosa Ransby-Sporn, Alex Sanchez, Lynn A. Staeheli, Alex S. Vitale and Pete White

    Edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton

    Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first e...