Amy Hanauer of ITEP asks "When profitable corporations pay little or nothing in taxes, who makes up the difference?"

Hanauer recommnds: Why Corporations Must Pay More, ITEP State Policy, The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History, and Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

Christopher Sebastian Parker asks what happens when people fight for democracy abroad but are denied its promises at home. Parker is the author of: Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South and Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America.

Parker recommends: Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military, Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military

"Close Ranks",

Cornell historian, Larry Glickman, explains that capitalism isn't a fixed system, but an idea that Americans have continually reinvented. Glickman is the author of Free Enterprise: An American History and Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America.

Glickman recommends: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist, The Incorporation of America, by Alan Trachtenberg, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy, by Suzanne Mettler, "Why I Am Not a Conservative" by F.A. Hayek, The Marketplace of RevolutionHow Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence by T.H. Breen, and Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by Seth Rockman.