Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation Stephen Bezruchka How healthy you are is dependent on where you live. Americans suffer more cancers, heart disease, mental illness, and other chronic diseases than those who live in other wealthy nations, despite having the most expensive healthcare system… Continue reading
“Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All” by Jeremy Lent Melville House, 400 pages, $33 Species extinction. Billionaire capture of governments. Inequality so extreme it’s destabilizing democracies. A return to large-scale war. Such events have combined to create an everything-all-at-once situation in the world that is no coincidence, according to… Continue reading
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy Gil Duran Not yet published Expected 18 Aug 26 A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambition of… Continue reading
City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco Jonathan Weber By one of San Francisco’s foremost chroniclers, the story of the city’s meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its… Continue reading
Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy Randi Weingarten America’s most influential teacher’s union leader tells the anti-fascist history of public education, warning that American teachers today are under a new fascist assault–from book bans to culture wars and organized groups of “concerned” parents dictating what can… Continue reading
Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill In this powerful work, John Stuart Mill sets forth representative government as the most sensible compromise between unreflective rule by the masses and the self-indulgence of the few. The reader may sense that Mill is being pulled in opposing steadfastly committed to majority… Continue reading
This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (Author) Format: Hardcover “Ben Wikler is one of the most strategic and respected leaders of his generation. If we do what this book says, we will win.”―Nancy Pelosi From the most successful Democratic operative of the last decade, a… Continue reading
Conservatism: America’s Personality Disorder Christopher Armitage, D. Carl Brown AMERICA’S PERSONALITY DISORDER Conservatives often defend policies that feel hard-hearted. Why? Christopher Armitage and D. Carl Brown argue the root problem is a measurable empathy gap, not mere ideology. Their concise analysis shows how this gap drives positions on poverty, immigration, pollution,… Continue reading
Arts + CultureCultureLitNews + PoliticsBusiness + Tech Exploring SF’s recent history: New book looks at 1990 to 2024 Booms, busts, tech, evictions, Burning Man… We talk to ‘City on the Edge’ author Jonathan Weber about our contentious moment. By Tim Redmond July 14, 2026 (48hills.org) San Francisco has changed profoundly… Continue reading
Follow the author Gary Lucks We Are the Power: To Win the Future (Unite and Take Action – The American Unity and Integrity Project) by Gary Lucks (Author) Format: Paperback They Said It Couldn’t Be Done.Sixteen years ago, Viktor Orbán came to power in Hungary through a democratic election, then captured the courts, silenced… Continue reading
