Current Affairs: Books and Films
There has been a wave of essential books and films / documentaries to counter current times. Here are some from 2017.
So You Want to Talk About Race
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In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a...
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
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As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal...
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
Women’s March Organizers and Conde Nast
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD - SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH - AMERICA FERRERA - ROXANE GAY - ILANA...
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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
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Where are you really from? You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in...
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Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands...
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century
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The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame...
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Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
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'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh...
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award-winning...
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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
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In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a...
What Is Populism?
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'An essential book' Washington Post From Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise...
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