Americans must decide if their anger and frustrations with the Biden administration outweigh their fear of a Trump second term.

The talk will not change the minds of committed partisans on either side. But for those who for the first time heard an extended argument in the Russian leader’s own words, it has probably humanised Putin.

There is a deep sense of foreboding in the US as the implications for President Biden's re-election bid are increasingly bleak as national polls show Trump leading the incumbent.

Emily Hauptmann's book 'Foundations and American Political Science' shows how US universities, foundations and the state mobilise knowledge for power to obscure where it lies and how it works.

Not since the 1960s and 1970s has physical political violence reached such levels.

The shift towards fascistic authoritarianism in the US establishment’s core parties and institutions has become institutionalised.

The war is rooted in imperial power politics with three sets of elites reckless enough to risk total catastrophe. As ever, it is working people, not elites, who pay the price of bloodshed and taxes to pay for the war.

'Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror' is an important book that comes at a time when the US and some of its allies are engaged in full-throttle propagandising about the Ukraine war.

In the aftermath of the far-right attack on Brazil's democratic institutions, the focus should be on bringing to book those elites who orchestrated, financed, planned and fomented violent insurrectionary attacks on the constitution.

Alexander Barder’s book Global Race War traces the moves and developments of a global racial order on a grand scale.

Nick Bromell's new book powerfully conveys how integral he was to the shaping of modern America. Now that race is again at the very top of the political agenda, we are all the more in need of his words.

David Vine’s 'The United States of War' is one of the most illuminating studies of how the US' empire of forts and bases developed and works.

Historian Jacques Pauwels shows that class war, imperial wars, racism and fascism are the preferred strategies of Western elite power in three books that force a re-think of the history of the past century.

Barbara F. Walter's 'How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them' breaks down the perilous path the US finds itself on with factionalism and exclusionary politics on the rise.

Maribel Morey’s book ‘White Philanthropy’ lays bare how a global network of Anglo-American elites shored up White power and supremacy in the 1940s, when the latter were on the global defensive.

In 'How China Escaped Shock Therapy', Isabella Weber provides a detailed study of China’s economic miracle, whatever its pitfalls and ensuing inequalities.

Stephen Wertheim's 'Tomorrow, the World' is an interesting study of the US foreign policy elite that birthed the military mindset and the military-industrial complex that followed, which President Eisenhower warned against as he left office.

The most significant driver in the development of right-wing populism arises from billionaire right-wing donor networks, especially the Koch brothers’ complex.

The political climate remains toxic but with a certain level of 'anxiety-laden' hope.