The Politics & Current Affairs Award Index

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond · 2016

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power · 2013

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian · 2023

National Defense

James Fallows · 1981

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick · 2010

The Fate of the Earth

Jonathan Schell · 2000

The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House

Seymour Hersh · 2013

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

Rajiv Chandrasekaran · 2006

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Evan Osnos · 2015

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

Jane Mayer · 2009

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen · 2017

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

George Packer · 2013

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Brian Goldstone · 2026

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr. · 2017

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America

Shelby Steele · 1991

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson · 2020

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall · 2023

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Robert Nozick · 1974

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

David K. Shipler · 2015

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Susan Faludi · 2010

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Joby Warrick · 2015

Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court

Elder Witt (editor) · 1997

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Nancy MacLean · 2017

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Steve Coll · 2018

Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Sam Quinones · 2019

From Beirut to Jerusalem

Thomas L. Friedman · 1998

In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

Bernice Yeung · 2018

Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance

Ian Buruma · 2007

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War

Anthony Shadid · 2006

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad · 2025

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Jason De León · 2024

The Making of the President 1960

Theodore H. White · 2010

The People's Choice

Herbert Agar · 1935

Weapons and Hope

Freeman Dyson · 1984

Cobalt Red: How the blood of the Congo powers our lives

Siddharth Kara · 2023

Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City

Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan · 2025

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer · 2016

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer · 2018

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

Barton Gellman · 2009

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia

Joshua Yaffa · 2020

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

Rebecca Solnit · 2018

Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration

Emily Bazelon · 2019

Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice

Alexander L. George, Richard Smoke · 1993

Diplomacy

Henry Kissinger · 1994

Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex

Judith Levine · 2003

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Dahlia Lithwick · 2022

Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority

Peter Skerry · 1993

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

Adam Schiff · 2021

My Fourth Time, We Drowned

Sally Hayden · 2022

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Barbara Ehrenreich · 2010