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
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
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
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans' Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025
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
I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy
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107 Days
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Abundance
Cold Zero
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
So Far Gone
Die Känguru-Rebellion (Die Känguru-Chroniken, #5)
Prophet Song
Nuclear War: A Scenario
The First Gentleman
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan             MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
475 books — 377 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanQuiet by Susan Cain
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,254 books — 1,065 voters

The Constitution of the United States of America by Founding FathersThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnCollected Writings by Thomas Paine
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
936 books — 1,103 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,199 books — 2,520 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFirst Time Dad by James        MacdonaldThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor Bombov
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,396 books — 2,543 voters
A New Earth by Eckhart TolleWay of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan MillmanWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherThe Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Thought Provoking
2,960 books — 1,636 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

Keith Richards
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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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