Politics

Politics (from Greek πολιτικός, "of, for, or relating to citizens"), is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs. It also refers to behavior within civil governments. However, politics can be observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and refers to the regulation of public affairs within a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply po ...more

Young World
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
The Complex
The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control
You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her
Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans' Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine
Nuclear Weapons: An International History
End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
107 Days
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Abundance
Cold Zero
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
In His Wake
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
So Far Gone
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Die Känguru-Rebellion (Die Känguru-Chroniken, #5)
The First Gentleman
The First Ladies
Prophet Song
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumThe Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Espionage
1,006 books — 1,044 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
1,067 books — 722 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,879 books — 3,923 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,781 books — 3,731 voters

The Prince
The Communist Manifesto
Animal Farm
1984
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
A Promised Land
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
The Republic
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Mahatma Gandhi
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi

Abraham Lincoln
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham Lincoln

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