Democracy 2009: Amy Goodman, co-founder, executive producer, and host of Democracy Now! 2010s 2010: Michael Pollan, author of Food Rules and co-narrator of Food, Inc. 2011: F.S. Michaels, author of Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything 2012: Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan, authors of Buried in the Sky 2013: Paul L. Thomas whose publications include "Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The corporate takeover of public education" (2012) and "Challenging Genres: Comic books and graphic novels" (2010). Dr. Thomas has also edited a recently published volume titled "Becoming and Being a Teacher: Confronting Traditional Norms to Create New Democratic Realities" (2013). 2014 The Onion for its satire and "treatment of dramatically sensitive issues that plague our culture", in particular U.S. gun culture. 2015: Anthony Cody for The Educator and the Oligarch 2016: David Greenberg for Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency 2017: Richard Sobel for Citizenship as Foundation of Rights: Meaning for America 2018: Katie Watson for Scarlet A 2019: Michael P. Lynch for Know-It-All-Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture 2020s 2020: Dr. April Baker-Bell, author of Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy 2021: Kristin Kobes Du Mez for Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation See also Orwell Prize – British prize for political writing Big Brother Awards Doublespeak Award References External links List of past winners (NCTE website) George Orwell American non-fiction literary awards Awards established in 1975 1975 establishments in the United States