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

The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Por Dentro do Chega: A face oculta da extrema-direita em Portugal
Not the Perfect Victim
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation
Frankly
To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban
Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
Hoe het wél kan
107 Days
Abundance
A Promised Land
The First Gentleman
So Far Gone
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Fever Beach
A Different Kind of Power
The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future
Eleven Numbers
Prophet Song
Edge of Honor: A Thriller (The Scot Harvath Series)
The Message
The Boomerang
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Best Horizon Expanding Books
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The Communist Manifesto
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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
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
The Republic
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Isaac Asimov
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. ...more
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Martin Luther King Jr.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

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