This affordable new reader from best-selling author Gary Goshgarian provides a wide-ranging collection of contemporary readings–almost 80% written in the 21st century--designed to get today’s students talking–and writing.

With chapters focusing on complex, current issues like global warming, media influence, and immigration, Readings for Today offers a wide range of contemporary opinion by journalists, academics, and public figures like Peggy Orenstein, David Brooks, Charles Murray, and Al Gore.