Movies

Inequality for All
U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
Watch @RBReich 's film "Inequality for All" for an eye-opening look at what's happening to the middle class.

Tooth Fairy
When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. Soon, Derek is inspired to rekindle his youthful dreams.

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
One of my faves! Don't laugh until you've seen it. I promise you this. Get a bowl of popcorn —Tooth Fairy and popcorn — and when you're finished tell me you don't feel better.
Books

Commonwealth
THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA powerful story of two families brought together by beauty and torn apart by tragedy, the new novel by the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder is her most astonishing yetIt is 1964: Bert Cousins, the deputy district attorney, shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited, bottle of gin in hand. As the cops of Los Angeles drink, talk and dance into the June afternoon, he notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When Bert kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, the new baby pressed between them, he sets in motion the joining of two families whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later.In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, has dropped out of law school and is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets one of her idols, the famous author Leon Posen, and tells him about her family, she unwittingly relinquishes control over their story. Franny never dreams that the consequences of this encounter will extend beyond her own life into those of her scattered siblings and parents.Told with equal measures of humour and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a powerful and tender tale of family, betrayal and the far-reaching bonds of love and responsibility. A meditation on inspiration, interpretation and the ownership of stories, it is Ann Patchett's most astonishing work to date.

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
...taught me this Jeopardy!-worthy bit of trivia:
How to make a “barmaid’s gin and tonic” to serve people who are already drunk. I’ve never needed to know this, but knowing it is like being let in on a cool little secret. Thank you, Ann Patchett, Commonwealth.

The New York Times Bread and Soup Cookbook

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
...that holds the recipe to a favorite dish:
The 1972 copy of Yvonne Young Tarr’s The New York Times Bread and Soup Cookbook that my husband bought used as a college student and brought with him to our marriage years later.

Little Women
Little Women has delighted and instructed readers for generations. For many, it is a favorite book first encountered in childhood or adolescence. Championed by Gertrude Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, Theodore Roosevelt, and J. K. Rowling, it is however much more than the “girls’ book” intended by Alcott’s first publisher. In this richly annotated, illustrated edition, Daniel Shealy illuminates the novel’s deep engagement with issues such as social equality, reform movements, the Civil War, friendship, love, loss, and of course the passage into adulthood.The editor provides running commentary on biographical contexts (Did Alcott, like Jo, have a “mood pillow”?), social and historical contexts (When may a lady properly decline a gentleman’s invitation to dance?), literary allusions (Who is Mrs. Malaprop?), and words likely to cause difficulty to modern readers (What is a velvet snood? A pickled lime?). With Shealy as a guide, we appreciate anew the confusions and difficulties that beset the March sisters as they overcome their burdens and journey toward maturity and adulthood: beautiful, domestic-minded Meg, doomed and forever childlike Beth, selfish Amy, and irrepressible Jo. This edition examines the novel’s central question: How does one grow up well?Little Women: An Annotated Edition offers something for everyone. It will delight both new and returning readers, young and old, male and female alike, who will want to own and treasure this beautiful edition full of color illustrations and photographs.

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
...I asked for as a kid:
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I lived multiple lives in reading and re-reading that book across many summers. I was Jo. Then Meg. Then Beth (I imagined my own great death). Then back to Jo. (Never Amy—what a priss!).

The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
...I’d want signed by the author for my library:
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. C’mon—it’s mythic.

How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
...surprised me:
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi because it wasn’t a sermon; it was a journey that unfolded a bit at a time.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
...fills me with hope:
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. People—even people who are badly damaged—get better.

Under a White Sky
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews • “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”—Helen Macdonald, The New York Times With a new afterword by the authorThat man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
...everyone should read:
Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert. In the midst of a growing climate crisis, this book simultaneously urges action and teaches caution.

Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik has once again been influenced by classic folktales, following Uprooted - her standalone novel. Taking Rumpelstiltskin as her starting point, Spinning Silver is rich, original and a joy to read.Will dark magic claim their home?Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s too kind-hearted to collect his debts. They face poverty, until Miryem hardens her own heart and takes up his work in their village. Her success creates rumours she can turn silver into gold, which attract the fairy king of winter himself. He sets her an impossible challenge – and if she fails, she’ll die. Yet if she triumphs, it may mean a fate worse than death. And in her desperate efforts to succeed, Miryem unwittingly spins a web which draws in the unhappy daughter of a lord. Irina’s father schemes to wed her to the tsar – he will pay any price to achieve this goal. However, the dashing tsar is not what he seems. And the secret he hides threatens to consume the lands of mortals and winter alike. Torn between deadly choices, Miryem and Irina embark on a quest that will take them to the limits of sacrifice, power and love.'Dire and wonderful; I loved this book so much' Laini Taylor'Pits the cold of endless winter against the fires of duty, love and sacrifice. I couldn’t put it down' Katherine Arden

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
...I consider literary comfort food:
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. I put it on my headphones when I’m really stressed, and I drift into another world.

Cases and Materials on Contracts
Cases and Materials on Contracts

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
...I’ve re-read the most:
Cases and Materials on Contract Law by Robert Hamilton, Alan Rau, and Russell Weintraub. I taught the course for 25 years, and this was the book I used.

Lonesome Dove
From the author of The Last Picture Show and Texasville – here is Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece. A powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was.It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande.It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived . . .More than a love story, more than an adventure, Lonesome Dove is an epic: a monumental novel which embraces the spirit of the last defiant wilderness of America.Legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers – Lonesome Dove is the central, enduring American experience dramatically recreated in a magnificent story of heroism and love; of honour, loyalty and betrayal. This is the third novel in the Lonesome Dove quartet, following on from Comanche Moon and prequels Streets of Laredo.

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
“Bruce [husband Bruce Mann] and I listened to it on a road trip through Yellowstone and across Montana and Wyoming.” -EW
Music

Aretha Franklin

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
Aretha Franklin's music inspired so many of us to speak out and be heard, and her powerful voice will never be forgotten.
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People

Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
Who is one foreign leader you admire?
Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany
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Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
Do you have a celebrity crush?
"The Rock."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
A year ago, she was taking orders across a bar. Today, millions are taking cues from her. She reminds all of us that even while greed and corruption slow our progress, even while armies of lobbyists swarm Washington, in our democracy, true power still rests with the people. And she’s just getting started.
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Articles

Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive
The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
Facebook’s algorithm sows division and its ads policy allows politicians to lie without consequence, turning the platform into a disinformation-for-profit machine.
Refusing to change these policies is eroding our democracy—and it will only get worse.
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Congressional Black Caucus to propose policing reforms after George Floyd's death
"All of us want to get at the root causes of the lack of police accountability," the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus told ABC News.

Elizabeth Warren
Politician
Eric Garner and George Floyd should be alive today. It’s appalling that chokeholds are still classified as an acceptable use of force. I
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