"The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America" by Sarah Kendzior

I really like reading Kendzior's newsletter whenever it arrives in my inbox. Although she occasionally quotes from her books, I'd never taken the time to read one before. I wanted to change that by starting with the most recent one, but my partner mentioned that it's better to read them all chronologically. So I started with this one. This is a collection of essays Kendzior wrote in 2012-2014 when she worked as a columnist for Al Jazeera English. They're grouped by topic and mostly cover economic/class inequality and other forms of discrimination in the US (but it's relevant for many countries). It aged a little, but more in a way that I thought: that's still happening right now, just about 10x worse than back then. Kendzior has a background in studying dictatorships in Central Asia, specifically in Uzbekistan. Only a few essays touched upon this, but I found them most interesting. I'd love for her to write a lot more about it. Anyway, I think her work is very insightful and…

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