Review: Yes We (Still) Can

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Drumpf Dan Pfeiffer   Synopsis "From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Drumpf era. On …

DNF Review: Democracy in Black

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Eddie S Glaude Jr.   Synopsis "A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even …

Review: Notorious RBG

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Irin Carmon Synopsis "Irin Carmon: I heard you can do 20 pushups. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Yes, but we do ten at a time. And then I breathe for a bit and do the second set. Nearly a half-century into being a feminist and legal pioneer, …

The Golden Lily

Richelle Mead This was my second time reading this one and it was as fantastic the second time as the first. My favorite aspect (on a more analytic note) is Sydney Sage challenging all she was indoctrinated to know. She is challenging what she was taught from birth because she is now being to understand …