Peter Turchin's scientific approach to history indicates an upcoming cataclysmic socio-political event that will shake—or possibly destroy—modern society.
In Wildland, Evan Osnos observes the raging fires of political, environmental, and social problems in America, but his leftist orientation misidentifies how those fires got started.
In Last Best Hope, George Packer divides America into four categories of people, about half of whom he despises, and then proceeds to lament their incompatibility as a threat to democracy.