Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner
We often forget we are the healthiest (or able to be the healthiest) generation in human history with the greatest medical and technological advances in human history and still more waiting to be discovered, imminenetly so. Fear sells - whether you are Hillary and her 3 am phone call or you are the current administration or you are the media - all have a stake in stoking the embers of fear wherever they may be.
Worth reading.