As avid readers and proud Americans who have not lived in the US for many years the leaders of America Today seek to understand contemporary American culture. Having heard all kinds of words and expressions – political correctness, CRT, wokeism, MAHA etc. – America Today hopes to define these terms by reading books focusing on current social events that get less coverage in the foreign press.

Led by Pamela Combastet and Beth Wintersteen

• Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
• Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Additional books TBD

• 9 October
• 13 November
• 11 December