This week we focus on book recommendations for listeners interested in learning more about our current democracy, warts and all! The books are:
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter
Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, by Anne Nelson
Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality, by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
Single Payer Healthcare explained
Historic Restoration Projects for Our Collective Soul
Theresa Amato drops by to talk about some of the barriers that independent candidates encounter and what we can do about it
Marc Goldwein from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (crfb.org)
Philip Fuehrer and Ben Thome talk politics with a Minnesotan perspective
Dr. Oscar Lovelace, rural physician and party chair, talks about healthcare
Congressional Candidate Steve Kuzmich on the Issues
Ralph Nader discusses political third parties
Rudy Barnes talks politics, law, religion, ethics and the military
Nick Thomas talks about EarthX
A Discussion with Jim Jonas, Executive Director at the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers
A Chat with David Daley, Senior Fellow at FairVote
Discussion with Elizabeth Melson, President of FairVote Virginia
Taking the Legislatures by Storm
A Discussion with Paul Stebbins from FixUS
Thanksgiving Gratitude
What's it like to be a candidate?
Interview with Debilyn Molineaux of the Bridge Alliance
Interview with Tim Cotton, the National Political Director
Party Leadership Roundtable Discussion
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