This month’s discussion will be about Rachel Maddow’s new book, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth. The book offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginable lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry… This book is a clarion call to contain the lion: to stop subsidizing the wealthiest industry on earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of predatory oil executives and their enablers. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, “Democracy either wins this one or disappears.”