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How do I get better at philosophy without majoring in philosophy?

I'm a politics major. I'm almost done but I'm realizing how important philosophy is. I'm assigned snippets of political philosophy but I'm realizing how all of philosophy is important. 

It's honestly amazing how much the humanities overlap. I need a deep understanding of philosophy to perform well. I kind of regret my major but it's too late, I see now why philosophy majors score higher than politics majors on the LSAT. 

I spent much of my teens engaging in "scientism" (Dawkins, hitchens, Harris) and I'm realizing how incorrect that is. 

My professors are helpful but I feel like I'm really lacking. So my question, who are the most influential philosophers that I must read and what philosophers are most involved in political philosophy? 

I was taught history, math, science in highscool but not philosophy. I feel like I barely have a foundation.
gpt
The philosophers you need to know to understand politics are the major historical ones like Plato, Hobbes, and Locke. Reading contemporary academic political philosophy will have a smaller payoff in that specific respect, because it has had less time to influence the culture.