I love following Sarah Kendzior on Twitter. She always has insightful takes on current politics and specializes in Central Asian dictatorships. Very interesting/scary to see parallels between the US and those countries. She predicted Trump's win and many other things that have come true, by the way. While I have known about this self-published ebook collection of her essays for several years, she has now gained enough notoriety to have them picked up by a publisher and also made into an audiobook--my library got both!

These essays were all previously published by various news sites, and they are categorized according to theme. Themes include women in the workplace, contemporary racism, the disappearance of the middle class, higher education, and US foreign policy.

Her writing style is tightly edited and hard-hitting. Highly recommended, but this presentation of reality will surely make you pessimistic (which, Kendzior notes, is key to making changes to weak and broken structures that American optimism is so happy to overlook).