Malka Older's near-future series "The Centenal Cycle" is freaking brilliant.  It's a meditation on the future of democracy and media control but is it dystopia or utopia?  It's got spies, assassins, politicians, and journalists.  It takes place all over the world.  And it has queeeeeers.  I love that for us.  This is a science fiction thriller written by a Latinx humanitarian aid worker with a phd in disaster response.  It is very on the nose and there are no easy answers inside.  But also NOT grimdark.  Recommend.