Members’ Book & Media Recommendations

A podcast about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.

From Heather Cox Richardson, historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy — and how we can turn back.

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a ‘provocative and compelling’ argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

A brain-bending investigation of why some people never change their minds—and others do in an instant. Includes a chapter on Deep Canvassing, and why it is so effective.

Democracy is fragile. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the dangers to our freedoms before it is too late.

End Times is the culmination of Peter Turchin’s work to understand what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart, as applied to the current turmoil within the United States.