Current Events & Politics

Hope Deferred collects the oral narratives of twenty-five Zimbabweans, speaking from all sides of their country's tumultuous political climate.

'The Nation' senior editor Richard Lingeman and a group of the magazine’s interns, editors, columnists and friends have scoured the American landscape to find community-centered cafés, farmers’ markets, and left-leaning radio stations.

The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.

The master of political humor strikes again with a powerful and provocative message for all Americans in The Truth (with Jokes).

In "This Was Not Our War," former U.S. Ambassador Swanee Hunt shares first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare.

DisneyWar is the inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war.

Anne Garrels' intimate portrait of the daily events during the war in Iraq.

Things Worth Fighting For is the collected articles and columns of Michael Kelly, award-winning reporter, war correspondent, columnist, and editor.

Global Village Idiot is a reprinting of many of John O'Farrell's Guardian columns over the period of time beginning with George W. Bush on the campaign trail and ending on the desert trails leading to Baghdad.

For the first time since his own classic "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations," Al Franken trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene.

From Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, "Hegemony or Survival" is an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow.

Stupid White Men is where Michael Moore learned to shoot. If Fahrenheit 911 aims its laser focus at the Bush/Iraq target, Stupid White Men is a shotgun.