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Politics

Last Updated: June 16, 2025

Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man With Rats in His Walls Broke Congress by Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater

Taking the reader into closed door meetings as House Republicans, in thrall to a cult of personality, bumble ever deeper into extremism, and sniping House Democrats lose faith in their President, the authors reveal a level of disorder that we have never seen before.

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

An exploration of the “pride paradox” that has given the right’s appeals such resonance.

Seven Things You Can’t Say About China by Tom Cotton

Seven Things You Can’t Say About China argues that China’s long-term strategy of influence could pose significant challenges to the United States and discusses actions that may be necessary to address these concerns.

Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes

It was the election America dreaded, a rematch between the two oldest men to serve as president. But somewhere along the way, the 2024 battle for the White House became the most jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, head-turning contest in American history. Based on real-time interviews with more than 150 insiders — from the
Trump, Harris, and Biden inner circles, as well as party leaders and operatives — Fight delivers the vivid and stunning tale of an election unlike any other.

Uncharted: How Trump Beta Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History by Chris Whipple

Esteemed White House historian & political analyst Chris Whipple chronicles the unprecedented drama as it unfolds, documenting the true story of the Harris & Trump campaigns and the difficult, urgent decisions made in the back rooms of power, with the future of American democracy at stake.

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen

Drawing upon newly declassified documents, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies.