Looking more deeply

The basics: Where are we, and how did we get here?

• How the South Won the Civil War, by Heather Cox Richardson
• Democracy Awakening, by Heather Cox Richardson
• Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
• Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, by Anne Applebaum

Understanding what's going on

• Making Sense of MAGA: An ideological roadmap to help you understand the madness, by Asha Rangappa

What can we learn from experience, here and elsewhere?

• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder
• Patriot: A Memoir, by Alexei Navalny
• How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, by Maria Ressa