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This is quite a useful resource to learn the basics of politics like terminology and how certain things work. Really, the rest is just applying that knowledge and paying attention to the news, check multiple sources to ensure that you're getting as full a picture of events as you can.

For the more world-wide stuff, and current events that impact politics, CNN can be a good source of information. Just make sure that you don't take any of the user comments seriously, most are just uninformed trolls.

Are you looking for the basic tenets of politics, or more applicable contemporary politics? For the former, there are tons of political guides out there which political science college students use. Get political dictionaries too. Also, try to a read up on basic economics too since they play a central role to politics today. Sloman is a good author of economics

Economic textbooks.*