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7. Here's the counter - an educated, progressive reading list on our political issues
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:36 AM
Jan 2018

"Don't Think of An Elephant" - George Lakoff (on conservative motivations, propaganda, and donors)

"Conservatives Without Conscience" - John Dean (ex-GOP)

"Lies: and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" - Al Franken (on propaganda media)

"The Authoritarians" - Bob Altemeyer (on how conservatism is anti-democracy)

"Shock Doctrine" - Naomi Klein (on how GOP achieves their political goals, like the Iraq War)

"What's the Matter With Kansas?" Thomas Frank (how GOP billionaires, Koches, ruined the KS economy)

"It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism" - Mann and Ornstein (two incredibly mainstream DC historians)

"The Economics of Inequality" - Piketty (The seminal economist of our time, on his seminal issue)

"Merchants of Doubt" - Oreskes (how corporations use PR to achieve their goals)

"Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" - Meyer

"Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future" - Mooney


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Anyone else have suggestions? We should put together a Progressive Reading List.

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