In recent years, there have been numerous published works focused on issues surrounding the divided state of our country, its causes and/or possible solutions. FixUS has curated many of them below with the goal of providing a dynamic, educational resource. The list below is not meant to be exhaustive, nor does inclusion of a work indicate any endorsement of its content from FixUS. The library is organized alphabetically by last name. If you have a recommendation of a book, report, scholarly article, or long-form opinion or journalistic piece to be added, please email us at FixUS@fixusnow.org.
(A)
- Alan I. Abramowitz, The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump (Yale University Press, 2018)
- Samuel Abrams and Morris Fiorina, Party Sorting: The Foundations of Polarized Politics in American Gridlock: The Sources, Character, and Impact of Political Polarization (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton University Press, 2017)
- Danielle Allen, Education and Equality (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
- Danielle Allen, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Liveright, 2014)
- Danielle Allen, The Road from Serfdom (The Atlantic, December 2019)
- Danielle Allen et al., Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020)
- Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Doubleday, 2020)
- John Avlon, Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
- John Avlon, Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America (Beast Books, 2010)
(B)
- Christopher Bail et al., Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization (PNAS, September 2018)
- Scott Baker et al., Elections, Political Polarization, and Economic Uncertainty (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2020)
- Melody Barnes, Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy: Can We Make American Democracy Work (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020)
- Melody Barnes, A Culture for American Democracy (Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2020)
- Larry Bartels, Political Inequality in Affluent Democracies (Social Science Research Council, July 2017)
- Larry Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Princeton University Press, 2008)
- Peter Berkowitz, Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic (Hoover Institution Press, 2003)
- Peter Berkowitz, Remedying Polarization With Constitutionalism (RealClearPolitics, 2020)
- Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015)
- Alessandro Bessi et al., Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube (PLOS ONE, August 2016)
- Bill Bishop, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)
- David Blankenhorn, The Top 14 Causes of Political Polarization (The American Interest, May 16, 2018)
- Arthur Brooks, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt (Broadside Books, 2019)
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019)
(C)
- Bruce Cain, Democracy More or Less: America's Political Reform Quandary (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
- Bruce Cain and Cody Gray, Parties by Design: Pluralist Party Reform in a Polarized Era (NYU Law Review, October 2018)
- Bruce Cain and Emily R. Zhang, Blurred Lines: Conjoined Polarization and Voting Rights (Ohio State Law Journal, 2016)
- Christopher Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
- Nicholas Carr, What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains: The Shallows (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010)
- Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2020)
- Oren Cass, America Needs a Conservative Labor Movement (Wall Street Journal, September 2020)
- Oren Cass, The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (Encounter Books, 2018)
- Mona Charen, The American Dream Is Not Dead (The Bulwark, August 2020)
- Mona Charen, The GOP and Conservative Media Now Resemble the Communists of My Youth (The Bulwark, March 2021)
- Raj Chetty et al., The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940 (Science, April 2017)
- Amy Chua, How America’s identity politics went from inclusion to division (The Guardian, March 1, 2018).
- Amy Chua, Political Tribes, Group Instinct & the Fate of Nations (Penguin Books, 2018)
- Peter Coleman, The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts (PublicAffairs, 2011)
- Peter Coleman, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization (Columbia University Press, 2021)
- Paul Collier, The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties (Harper, 2018)
- David Courtwright, The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business (Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2019)
- Katherine Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
- James Curry and Frances Lee, The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
(D)
- Russell Dalton, The Participation Gap: Social Status and Political Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Michela Del Vicario et al., The Spreading of Misinformation Online (PNAS, January 2016)
- Larry Diamond, Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes (Democratization, September 2020)
- Larry Diamond, De-Polarizing (The American Interest, October 2015)
- Larry Diamond, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency (Penguin Press, 2019)
- Paul DiMaggio et al., Digital Inequality: From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use (Social Inequality, January 2001)
- Lee Drutman, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America (Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Lee Drutman, The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate (Oxford University Press, 2015)
- Lee Drutman, Political Divisions in 2016 and Beyond: Tensions Between and Within the Two Parties (Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, June 2017)
- Mark Dunkleman, The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014)
- Ivan Dylko et al., The dark side of technology (Computers in Human Behavior, August 2017)
(E)
- Mickey Edwards, The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans (Yale University Press, 2012)
- Mickey Edwards, A Republican Journey (The Bulwark, January 2021)
- Andrew El-Azzi, How Inequality Undermines Democracy: The Case Against the United States, and Beyond (UJPPS, April 2019)
- Bill Emmott, The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea (Economist Books, 2017)
(F)
- Morris P. Fiorina, Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate (Hoover Institution Press, 2017)
- Morris P. Fiorina, Why America Is Actually Not Going To Become A ‘Majority-Minority’ Nation (The Federalist, December 2020)
- David French, Politics in a Jealous God: Americans are replacing their religion with political tribalism, and we’re all worse off for it (The Dispatch, December 2019)
- Francis Fukuyama, America in Decay (Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 2014)
- Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)
- Francis Fukuyama et al., How to Save Democracy from Technology: Ending Big Tech's Information Monopoly (Foreign Affairs, Jan./Feb. 2021)
- Bernard L. Fraga, The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in America (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
- David French, Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
- David French, How Pro-Life and Pro-Marriage Policies Could Mess With Party Alignments (The Dispatch, March 2021)
- Rana Faroohar, Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech (Currency 2019)
- Rana Faroohar, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business (Currency 2016)
(G)
- William Galston, Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy (Journal of Democracy, April 2018)
- William Galston, The Enduring Vulnerability of Liberal Democracy (Journal of Democracy, July 2020)
- William Galston, Polarized America Still Has a Big Middle (Wall Street Journal, December 2019)
- William Galston and Thomas Mann, Republicans Slide Right: The Parties Aren’t Equally to Blame for Washington’s Schism (Brookings Institution, May 2010)
- Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy (Crown Forum, 2018).
- Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter, Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America (Harvard Business School, September 2017)
- Andre Gelman, Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (Princeton University Press, 2009)
- Martin Gilens, Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America (Princeton University Press, 2012)
- Adam Grant, The Science of Reasoning With Unreasonable People (Association for Psychological Science, February 2021)
- Kurt Gray et al., Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (Psychological Inquiry, April 2012)
- Dominic Green, Oligarchy in America (The Spectator, 2021)
- Susan Greenfield, Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains (Random House, 2015)
(H)
- Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion (Vintage Books, 2012)
- Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (Penguin Press, 2018)
- Jonathan Haidt and Tobias Rose-Stockwell, The Dark Psychology of Social Networks (The Atlantic, December 2019)
- Eric Hansen and Andrew Tyner, Educational Attainment and Social Norms of Voting (Political Behavior, October 2019)
- Eric Hanushek, Education Production Functions in Economics of Education, 2nd Edition (London Academic Press, 2020)
- Yuval Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Random House, 2018)
- Tristan Harris, How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist (Observer, June 2016)
- Stephen Hawkins et al., Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape (More in Common, 2018)
- Christopher Hayes, Twilight of the Elites (Broadway Paperbacks, 2012)
- Stephen Heintz, For Philanthropy to Work, Democracy Must Work (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 2020)
- Clara Hendrickson et al., Countering the geography of discontent: Strategies for left-behind places (The Brookings Institution, November 2018)
- Eitan Hersh, Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change (Simon & Schuster January 14, 2020)
- Marc Hetherington and Thomas Rudolph, Why Washington Won't Work: Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
- Sounman Hong, Who Benefits from Twitter? Social Media and Political Competition in the U.S. House of Representatives (Government Information Quarterly, October 2013)
- Brian Hooks and Charles Koch, Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
- Daniel Hopkins, All Politics Is National Because All Media Is National (FiveThirtyEight, 2018)
- Daniel Hopkins, The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
- David Hopkins, Red Fighting Blue: How Geography and Electoral Rules Polarize American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
- Daniel J. Hopkins and Jonathan Sides, Political Polarization in American Politics (Bloomsbury 2015)
- Phillip Howard, The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018 (Computational Propaganda Research Project, October 2019)
- Hyunseo Hwang et al., Seeing is Believing: Effects of Uncivil Online Debate on Political Polarization and Expectations of Deliberation (Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, December 2014)
(I)
- Matthew Incantalupo, The Effects of Unemployment on Voter Turnout in U.S. National Elections (June 2011)
- Shanto Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, and Gaurav Sood, The Hostile Audience: The Effect of Access to Broadband Internet on Partisan Affect (The American Journal of Political Science, January 2017)
(J)
- Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Twelve, 2016)
(K)
- Nathan P. Kalmoe and Donald Kinder, Neither Liberal nor Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the American Public (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
- Robert Kaplan, How We Lose against China (National Review, January 2021)
- Ezra Klein, Why We’re Polarized (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2020)
- Rachel Kleinfeld, The U.S. Shows All The Signs of a Country Spiraling Toward Political Violence (Washington Post, September 2020)
- Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Crown, 2018)
- Arnold Kling, The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides (Cato Institute, 2017)
- Knight Foundation and Aspen Institute, Crisis in Democracy: Renewing Trust in America (Aspen Institute, February 2019)
- Karen Kornbluh et al., Safeguarding Digital Democracy: Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative Roadmap (The German Marshall Fund of the United States, March 2020)
- Didi Kuo, The Paradox of Party Polarization (The American Interest, March 27, 2018)
(L)
- Hannu Lahtinen et al., Gradient constraint in voting: The effect of intra-generational social class and income mobility on turnout (Electoral Studies, November 2016)
- Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Shaffner, Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail (University of Michigan Press, 2015)
- Raymond J. La Raja and Jonathan Rauch, Voters need help: How party insiders can make presidential primaries safer, fairer, and more democratic (Brookings Institution, January 2020)
- Frances E. Lee, Insecure Majorities: Congress and the perpetual campaign (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
- Jill Lepore, This America: The Case for a Nation (Liveright, 2019)
- Lawrence Lessig, They Don’t Represent Us (Harper Collins, 2019)
- Yuval Levin, The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism (Basic Books, 2016)
- Yuval Levin, A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and The Campus, how recommitting to our institutions can revise the American Dream (Basic Books, 2020)
- Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (Broadway Books, 2018)
- Mark Lilla, The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (Harper Collins, 2017)
- Michael Lind, The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite (Portfolio, January 2020)
- Tod Lindberg, The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern (Encounter Books, 2015)
- Tod Lindberg, Thatcher Began Modern Political Polarization (USA Today, April 2013)
- Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer, The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government (Sasquatch Books, 2011)
- Beual Lotto, Deviate: Why Disrupting What We See Leads to Innovation in Life and Work (Hachette Books, 2017)
- Edward Luce, Retreat of Western Liberalism (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017)
(M)
- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, It’s Even Worse Than It Was: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism (Basic Books, 2012)
- Lilliana Mason, Uncivil Agreement (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
- Andrew McAfee, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next (Scribner, 2019)
- Nolan McCarty, Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2019)
- Steve McIntosh, Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself (Paragon House, 2020)
- Suzanne Mettler and Robert Lieberman, Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy (St. Martin’s Press, 2020)
- Jane Meyer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (Doubleday, 2016)
- Yascha Mounk, The Courage of Our Convictions (Persuasion, June 2020)
- Yascha Mounk, The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It (Harvard University Press 2018)
- Yascha Mounk, The Rise of McPolitics (The New Yorker, July 2018)
- Yascha Mounk, The Undemocratic Dilemma (Journal of Democracy, April 2018)
- Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (Crown Forum, 2012)
- Diana C. Mutz, In-Your-Face Politics: The consequences of uncivil media (Princeton University Press)
(N)
- Thomas Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Hans Noel, How ideological activists constructed our polarized parties (Washington Post, January 15, 2014)
- Hans Noel, Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- Hans Noel, The Senate represents states, not people. That’s the problem. (Vox, October 2018)
- Pippa Norris, Why American Elections Are Flawed (And How to Fix Them) (Cornell Selects, 2017)
- Mike Norton and Richard Pildes, How Outside Money Makes Governing More Difficult (Election Law Journal, September 2020)
(O)
(P)
- Nate Persily, Can Democracy Survive the Internet? (Journal of Democracy, April 2017)
- Nate Persily, Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- Whitney Phillips, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape (The MIT Press, 2021)
- Richard Pildes, Participation and Polarization (Penn Journal of Constitutional Law, June 2020)
- Steve Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Penguin Books, 2018)
- Markus Prior, Media and Political Polarization (Annual Review of Political Science, October 2012)
- john powell, Only Bridging Can Heal a World of Breaking (November 2019, YES! Magazine)
- john powell, Structural Racism: Building Upon the Insights of John Calmore (North Carolina Law Review, 2008)
- john powell and Stephen Menendian, The Problem of Othering: Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging (Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, April 2018)
- Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
- Robert Putnam, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Simon & Schuster, 2016)
- Robert Putnam, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
(R)
- Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, (Brookings Institution Press, 2021)
- Jonathan Rauch, Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy (Brookings Institution Press, 2015)
- Christopher Rauh, Voting, education, and the Great Gatsby Curve (Journal of Public Economics, February 2017)
- Richard Reeves, Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do About It (Brookings Institution Press, 2017)
- Richard Reeves, Everyday equality (Brookings Institution, September 2020)
- Robert B. Reich, The Common Good (Knopf, 2018)
- Alice Rivlin, Divided We Fall: Why Consensus Matters (Brookings Institution Press, 2021)
- Alice Rivlin et al., My Final Thoughts on How to Heal Divisions in America (The Hill, October 2019)
- Jonathan Rodden, Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide (Basic Books, 2019)
(S)
- Jai Sahak, john powell, and Renata Avila, Three Ways to Rethink the Concept of Citizenship (Open Canada, September 2018)
- Michael Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020)
- Ben Sasse, Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal Kindle Edition (St. Martin's Press, 2018)
- Isabel Sawhill, The Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation (Yale University Press, 2018)
- Isabel Sawhill and Richard Reeves, A New Contract with the Middle Class (Brookings Institution Press, 2020)
- Dante Scala and Kenneth Johnson, Political Polarization along the Rural-Urban Continuum? The Geography of the Presidential Vote, 2000–2016 (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, June 2017)
- Juliana Schroeder et al., Endorsing help for others that you oppose for yourself: Mind perception alters the perceived effectiveness of paternalism (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Aug 2017)
- Robert Shapiro, Lies, Damn Lies, and Democracy (Conference on the Politics of Truth, American University, March 2018)
- Robert Shapiro, A New Partisan Voter (The Journal of Politics, January 2009)
- Jonathan Sides, Identity Crisis - 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America (Princeton University Press, 2018)
- John Sides et al., On the Representativeness of Primary Electorates (British Journal of Political Science, March 2018)
- Karen Stenner, The Authoritarian Dynamic (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- Alexander Stewart et al., Polarization under rising inequality and economic decline (Science Advances, December 2020)
- Michael Strain, The American Dream is Not Dead (But Populism Could Kill It) (Templeton Press, 2020)
- Andrew Sullivan, America Wasn’t Built for Humans (New York Magazine, September 2017)
- Andrew Sullivan, America’s New Religions (New York Magazine, December 7, 2017)
- Emily Sydnor, Disrespectful Democracy: The Psychology of Political Incivility (Columbia University Press, 2019)
(T)
- Sean M. Theriault and David W. Rohde, The Gingrich Senators and Their Effect on the U.S. Senate (American Political Science Association, Meeting Paper, 2011)
- Michael Tomasky, If we Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might Be Saved (W.W. Norton & Company, 2019)
- Peter Turchin, Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (Beresta Books, 2016)
(U)
- Eric Uslaner and Mitchell Brown, Inequality, Trust, and Civic Engagement (American Politics Research, November 2005)
(V)
- Tom VanHeuvelen and Katherine Copas, The Geography of Polarization, 1950 to 2015. (The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, September 2019)
- John Voorheis et al., Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock: How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization (Mimeo, University of Oregon, August 2015)
(W)
- Peter Wehner, The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump (HarperOne, 2019)
- Marc Weiler, Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- Ismail White and Cheryl Laird, Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior (Princeton University Press, 2020)
- Will Wilkinson, The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization, and Populist Backlash (Niskanen Center, June 2019)
(Y)
- JungHwan Yang et al., Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, September 2016)
- Danielle Yudkin, Education and Equality (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
- Daniel Yudkin et al., The Perception Gap: How False Impressions are Pulling Americans Apart (More in Common, June 2019)
(Z)
- Julian Zelizer, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party (Penguin Press, 2020)
- Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight For a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (PublicAffairs, 2019)
- Shoshana Zuboff, The Coup We Are Not Talking About (The New York Times, January 2021)