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Books by and about 2020 presidential candidates
Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015)
Fire and Fury,
by Michael Wolff (2018)
Trump Revealed,
by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (2016)
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2016)
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017)
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden)
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019)
Smart on Crime,
by Kamala Harris (2010)
Guide to Political Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2017)
Where We Go From Here,
by Bernie Sanders (2018)
Our Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2016)
This Fight Is Our Fight,
by Elizabeth Warren (2017)
United,
by Cory Booker (2016)
Conscience of a Conservative,
by Jeff Flake (2017)
Two Paths,
by Gov. John Kasich (2017)
Every Other Monday,
by Rep. John Kasich (2010)
Courage is Contagious,
by John Kasich (1998)
Shortest Way Home,
by Pete Buttigieg (2019)
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018)
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018)
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017)
Trump vs. Hillary On The Issues ,
by Jesse Gordon (2016)
Outsider in the White House,
by Bernie Sanders (2015)

Book Reviews

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Columns and news articles in The New Yorker


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    Articles from The New Yorker magazine:
  • 2023 Presidential primary: "The Alternative Facts of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.," by David Remnick, July 7, 2023, (Link)
  • The New Yorker, "Cornel West Sees a Spiritual Decay in the Culture," by Vinson Cunningham, March 9, 2022, (Link)
  • The New Yorker, "A Pennsylvania Lawmaker and the Resurgence of Christian Nationalism," by Eliza Griswold, May 9, 2021
  • New Yorker magazine: 2024_VT_Senate: "Bernie Sanders Is Not Done Fighting," by Andrew Marantz, June 9, 2020, (Link)
  • (On 2020 presidential race): "Instead of Challenging Joe Biden, Maybe the Green Party Could Help Change Our Democracy," by Bill McKibben, April 15, 2020
  • (On James Mattis): The New Yorker on 2018 Trump Administration, 8/30/2018
  • The New Yorker, "Xi Jinping May Be President for Life. What Will Happen to China?," by Evan Osnos, February 26, 2018
  • (On 2020 Veepstakes): "Why Sally Yates Stood Up to Trump," by Ryan Lizza, May 22, 2017
  • "How Trump Could Get Fired," by Evan Osnos, May 8, 2017
  • WV-Senate, "In the Heart of Trump Country," by Larissa MacFarquhar, October 3, 2016
  • (On Bill Weld): New Yorker magazine on 2016 vice-presidential hopefuls, 6/4/2016
  • (On Paul Ryan): Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker, "Fussbudget": profile of Ryan, 8/6/2012
  • (On Hillary Clinton): 2008 speculation, by Jeffrey Goldberg in the New Yorker, 5/29/2006
  • (On Howard Dean): 2008 speculation, by Jeffrey Goldberg in the New Yorker, 5/29/2006
  • (On Mike Bloomberg): New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty website, 12/5/2005
  • (On Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia & Stephen Breyer): Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, "Swing Shift", 9/12/2005
  • (On Wesley Clark): The New Yorker magazine, "Gen. Clark’s Battles", 11/17/2003
  • New Yorker magazine, "Trump Solo," by Mark Singer, May 12, 1997

 OnTheIssues.org excerpts:  (click on issues for details)
Budget & Economy
    Donald Trump: Brush with bankruptcy: $700M loss in debt restructuring.
Civil Rights
    Hillary Clinton: Op-ed: Sponsored flag-burning bill for centrist credential.
    Pete Buttigieg: For LGBT rights, but doesn't presume to speak for everyone.
    Sally Yates: Religious freedom is a defining, founding principle of US.
Corporations
    Tom Steyer: Big-money interests are committed to stopping progress.
Crime
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Lower crime with violence-interruption programs, summer jobs.
    Mike Bloomberg: Lock them up and throw away key, but no death penalty.
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: JFK assassination and coverup with CIA involvement.
Education
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Biden should pursue student-loan cancellation.
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: They're replacing history with white-nationalist propaganda.
Environment
    Bill Weld: 1996 River Protection Act: 9,000 miles of land use rules.
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: End toxic polarization: only environmentalist on Fox News.
Foreign Policy
    Anthony Kennedy: Using foreign law is inevitable with an interconnected world.
    Antonin Scalia: Foreign laws ought to be rejected out of hand.
    Stephen Breyer: Supreme Court can learn from foreign laws.
    Cornel West: Pro-Palestinians are accused of being anti-Semitic or naive.
Government Reform
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Attacks on right to vote puts our democracy at risk.
    Doug Mastriano: Supported lawsuits, alternate electors after 2020 election.
    Pete Buttigieg: Get rid of the Electoral College.
    Xi Jinping: Ended presidential term limits, consolidating power.
    Xi Jinping: Most serious challenge since the end of the Cold War.
Health Care
    Pete Buttigieg: His generation not put off by claims of "socialism".
Immigration
    Richard Ojeda: Taking benefits from illegal immigrants sounds good.
    Sally Yates: Muslim travel ban violates religious freedom.
Jobs
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: I believe in labor unions & a robust middle class.
Principles & Values
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Congress is a shit show, scandalizing every single day.
    Donald Trump: Trump Tower glitz: Italian marble 80-foot waterfall.
    Doug Mastriano: Prayed that God would influence Capitol election protest.
    Hillary Clinton: Hillary's paradox: she's not as liberal as people think.
    Howard Dean: DNC pursuing a 50-state strategy to take back the House.
    Howie Hawkins: Danger of Trump doesn't mean electing "any damned Democrat".
    John F. Kennedy: JFKs's Addison disease kept secret for decades.
    Sally Yates: AG should say no to president in order to obey the law.
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: America without censorship: I'm not a cancel-culture guy.
Technology
    Paul Ryan: Within government limits are things like infrastructure.
War & Peace
    James Mattis: Keep U.S. troops in Syria indefinitely to defeat ISIS.
    James Mattis: Keep U.S. troops in Syria indefinitely to defeat ISIS.
    Wesley Clark: Bush used 9/11 as a pretext to implement Iraq invasion plan.
    Wesley Clark: Supported Iraq war while we were at war.
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Supports Minsk accord: Independent Donbas & annexed Crimea.


The above quotations are from Columns and news articles in The New Yorker.

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