Since I'm recommending books by liberals today, I also wanted to mention the new collection of Paul Krugman essays, The Great Unraveling. If you don't want to spring for it, I can basically summarize it with the words, "Just about everything the Bush administration is doing is going to bite us all on the ass." Naturally, Mr. Krugman goes into a little more detail than that, as befits a professor of Economics at Princeton. I ordinarily have little patience with predictions that the sky is falling but I find Krugman usually has pretty sound logic behind his doom 'n' gloom forecasts and he manages to avoid most of the personal crap. He will either come to be viewed as the sagest prophet of our time or this book will be ruthlessly mocked for its needless hysteria. Either way, I'm glad I have a copy and if you want to have one, here's our Amazon link. (Full disclosure: My copy was sent to me, free and unsolicited, by someone who works for its publisher and follows this site. But I would still be recommending it even if I'd paid good money for it.)