The best non-fiction book I've read recently is The Wisdom of Whores by Elizabeth Pisani. She's a journalist/public health policy expert - I am the biggest geek ever, this just in - who's done a huge amount of work with HIV/AIDS in Asia. She's wonderful at explaining all the policy and epidemiological issues for lay people in this nonjudgmental, accessible, and often morbidly funny, language. There's a little bit of trollish sleight-of-hand here and there, but I kind of respect it, because she explains how and why she does that in an early chapter, so it's easy to read with an informed eye. She did a fantastic TED talk which touched on a lot of her main points; I highly recommend checking it out regardless of if the book sounds like your thing.

I also really recommend The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler, about forced adoption in the pre-Roe twentieth century. It's heartbreaking, but it does a beautiful job contextualizing all the political, historical, and personally emotional factors.

I know I've read others recently and I can't pull them off the top of my head right now, but those are the two I really can't recommend enough.