- Confront and conceal, Obama's secret wars and surprising use of American power, David E. Sanger
- People get ready, the fight against a jobless economy and a citizenless democracy, Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
- Still a house divided, race and politics in Obama's America, Desmond S. King & Rogers M. Smith
- Shadow government, surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single superpower world, Tom Engelhardt ; foreword by Glenn Greenwald
- The Obama presidency, promise and performance, edited by William J. Crotty
- Conservative innovators, how states are challenging federal power, Ben Merriman
- The Obama presidency in the constitutional order, a first look, edited by Carol McNamara and Melanie M. Marlowe
- Fire and fury, inside the Trump White House, Michael Wolff
- Third World America, how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the American dream, Arianna Huffington
- The 2016 presidential election, the causes and consequences of a political earthquake, edited by Amnon Cavari, Richard J. Powell, and Kenneth R. Mayer
- The world as it is, a memoir of the Obama White House, Ben Rhodes
- The Tea Party, a brief history, Ronald P. Formisano
- The backlash, right-wing radicals, hi-def hucksters, and paranoid politics in the age of Obama, Will Bunch
- Post-racial or most-racial?, race and politics in the Obama era, Michael Tesler
- Plutocrats united, campaign money, the Supreme Court, and the distortion of American elections, Richard L. Hasen
- The politics of right sex, transgressive bodies, governmentality, and the limits of trans rights, Courtenay W. Daum
- Two paths, America divided or united, John Kasich with Daniel Paisner
- Faith-based policy, a litmus test for understanding contemporary America, John Chandler
- A consequential president, the legacy of Barack Obama, Michael D'Antonio
- All the presidents' bankers, the hidden alliances that drive American power, Nomi Prins
- Confidence man, the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America, Maggie Haberman
- Uncertain ground, citizenship in an age of endless, invisible war, Phil Klay
- Network propaganda, manipulation, disinformation, and radicalization in American politics, Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts
- While America sleeps, a wake-up call for the post-9/11 era, Russ Feingold
- We were eight years in power, an American tragedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Unconventional, partisan, and polarizing rhetoric, how the 2016 election shaped the way candidates strategize, engage, and communicate, [edited by] Jeanine E. Kraybill
- Latino America, how America's most dynamic population is poised to transform the politics of the nation, Matt Barreto and Gary M. Segura ; with contributions from Elizabeth Bergman, Loren Collingwood, David Damore, Justin Gross, Blanca Flor Guillen, Sylvia Manzano, Adrian Pantoja, Francisco Pedraza, Gabriel Sanchez, and Ali Valenzuela
- No is not enough, resisting Trump's shock politics and winning the world we need, Naomi Klein
- Trump talk, Donald Trump in his own words, George Beahm
- Russian roulette, the inside story of Putin's war on America and the election of Donald Trump, Michael Isikoff and David Corn
- The center did not hold, a Biden/Obama balance sheet, Robert Eisenberg
- A higher loyalty, truth, lies, and leadership, James Comey
- The Obama hate machine, the lies, distortions, and personal attacks on the president-- and who is behind them, Bill Press
- A fighting chance, Elizabeth Warren
- The promise, President Obama, year one, Jonathan Alter
- Identity crisis, the 2016 presidential campaign and the battle for the meaning of America, John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck
- Killing machine, the American presidency in the age of drone warfare, Lloyd C. Gardner
- No future for you, salvos from the Baffler, edited by John Summers, Chris Lehmann, and Thomas Frank
- The populist explosion, how the great recession transformed American and European politics, John B. Judis
- The Black presidency, Barack Obama and the politics of race in America, Michael Eric Dyson
- Yes we (still) can, politics in the age of Obama, twitter, and Trump, Dan Pfeiffer
- America's bitter pill, money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system, Steven Brill
- The third reconstruction, America's struggle for racial justice in the twenty-first century, Peniel E. Joseph
- The Obama presidency, a preliminary assessment, edited by Robert P. Watson [and others]
- Defying the odds, the 2016 elections and American politics, James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney Jr
- Game changers, how dark money and super PACs are transforming U.S. campaigns, Henrik M. Schatzinger, Steven E. Martin
- Pity the billionaire, the hard times swindle and the unlikely comeback of the Right, Thomas Frank
- Among the truthers, a journey through America's growing conspiracist underground, Jonathan Kay
- Obama, the call of history, Peter Baker
- Confidence men, Wall Street, Washington, and the education of a president, Ron Suskind