The United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists by Peter Bergen (New York: Crown Publishers, 2016); 400 pages.
It took only a few hours after two Islamic State suicide bombings ripped apart the departure hall of Brussels ...
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II by Richard Reeves (Henry Holt and Company, 2015); 384 pages.
The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During ...
The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program by Jeremy Scahill and the Staff of The Intercept (Simon & Schuster, 2016); 256 pages.
Last summer, the Obama administration finally made good on its promise to ...
Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2015), 432 pages.
There is much in U.S. history that Americans should not be proud of. Chattel slavery. The genocide of indigenous ...
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld by Jamie Bartlett (Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2015), 320 pages.
Do you really want someone to die? If you could help bring about someone’s demise by anonymously and securely placing a ...
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015), 400 pages.
Your data or your life. Distilled to its essence, this is the ...
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), 400 pages.
When American bombs began to rain down on Vietnam, the country’s water buffalo reacted queerly. The fields full ...
Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
by Tom Engelhardt (Haymarket Books 2014), 200 pages.
“A shadow government has conquered twenty-first-century Washington. We have the makings of a thug state of the ...
They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars — The Untold Story by Ann Jones. (Haymarket Books/Dispatch Books 2013), 191 pages.
Members of the American armed forces are props. They wave from convertibles as Independence Day parades ...
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko (Public Affairs 2013), 400 pages.
“A man’s home is his castle,” the old English saying goes.
Since the American Revolution, Americans’ homes have been considered sanctified ...
