Books about the political zeitgeist in America right now (early 2025)

The Power Worshippers Katherine Stewart Casual
Multiple studies show that increased contraceptive access, including better insurance coverage policies, over-the-counter availability, and comprehensive sex education, dramatically reduces rates of both unintended pregnancy and abortion. If antiabortion activists were truly interested in lowering abortion rates, they would champion such measures. Instead, they support measures that interfere with access.

Sisters in Hate Seyward Darby Casual
EXITING HATE IS similar to embracing it. It involves a search for place and purpose, born of personal need. A person doesn't necessarily exit because a veil lifts and they are suddenly able to see hate for what it is. They leave because it makes sense to them and for them. Corinna seemed to know this, writing once on a blog she kept as Axis Sally, "The reality is, people rarely change their personality or ideals during adulthood, and if they do, it needs to be something they do on their own, for themselves."

Fascism: A Warning Madeleine Albright Casual

Doppelganger Naomi Klein Casual
...if there is a message I should have taken from the destabilizing appearance of my doppelganger, this is it: Once and for all, stop eavesdropping on strangers talking about you in this crowded and filthy global toilet known as social media.

> Show books by men too?

> Aahh! Never mind!

Everything You Love Will Burn Vegas Tenold Casual
Surrounding him was a handful of NSM members, many of them clearly old enough to qualify for Medicare. "Jeff said he was bringing numbers," Matthew said. "I didn't realize he meant cumulative age."
"We have shields, they have osteoporosis," Miles said.

How Fascism Works Jason Stanley Casual
The chief reason we have free speech in democracy is to facilitate public discourse about policy on the part of citizens and their representatives. But the kind of debate where one shrieks insults at another, not to mention engages in physical violence and then denounces protest as an attack on speech, is not the relevant kind of public discourse that free speech rights are meant to protect.