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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara
2023
In the midst of the excitement surrounding the electric vehicle revolution, Siddharth Kara’s ground…
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Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe
2021
Decades into the opioid epidemic, once-elusive Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family have become hou…
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Daniel Immerwahr
2019
Many years ago, I took my children on an educational trip to Washington, DC. I was startled to see …
History — Political Science —
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I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country

Elena Kostyuchenko
2023
The recent death of Alexei Navalny offered yet another sobering reminder of Vladimir Putin’s relent…
Essays — Political Science —
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Poverty, By America

Matthew Desmond
2023
Matthew Desmond says in his prologue that he wrote "Poverty, By America" in an attempt to…
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The Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Anne Applebaum
2020
You may know Anne Applebaum as a political commentator on television or as a Pulitzer Prize winning…
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When Crack Was King

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan Ramsey
2023
The United States’ crack epidemic of the 1980s and 90s was undeniably a period of great suffering a…
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