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Gustavo Arellano on The Sheriff vs. Black L.A., and Michele Goodwin on Ketanji Brown Jackson
The sheriff of Los Angeles County: he’s got 10,000 deputies, in America’s biggest county, with 10 million people - and he’s become LA’s biggest polit…
4 years, 1 month ago
How the Ukraine War Could End: Anatol Lieven; Plus E.J. Dionne & Miles Rapoport: 100% Voting
How could the war in Ukraine end? Anatol Lieven says Russia could gain control of the entire Donbass region and then declare a cease-fire – but if we…
4 years, 1 month ago
Joan Walsh on Ginni Thomas, and Astra Taylor on Abolishing Student Debt
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, will be called to testify before the House Committee investigating the January 6 ins…
4 years, 1 month ago
Fighting about the Constitution: Fishkin & Forbath, plus P.E. Moskowitz on antidepressants
The Senate confirmation hearings for Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, have been following a familiar script: opponents look for …
4 years, 2 months ago
What The Media Should Be Doing During Wartime; plus Hoberman on Comics As Propaganda
Bhaskar Sunkara, the founder of Jacobin, has become President of The Nation. He joins us to talk about what independent media can and should do durin…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jamie Raskin: Why It's Been So Hard to Nail Trump; plus Michael Kazin on the Democrats
Jamie Raskin, member of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, talks about the committee’s evidence against Trump–and t…
4 years, 2 months ago
Putin’s War: What is to be Done? Katrina vanden Heuvel, plus Elie Mystal on the constitution
Putin’s indefensible invasion of Ukraine has revived the Cold War, and renewed militarism and nuclear threats. We need Russia to negotiate a ceasefir…
4 years, 2 months ago
Canadian Truckers: a Working Class Protest? Jeet Heer, plus Amy Wilentz on Paul Farmer
Now that Canada's "Freedom Convoy" has come to an end, we're wondering: was this protest really a working-class movement? As Jeet Heer explains on th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Will Trump’s candidates lose in November? John Nichols; Hunter S. Thompson: Peter Richardson
Mitch McConnell thinks Republicans are going to lose the Senate in November if Trump's candidates and issues dominate the election. Is McConnell righ…
4 years, 3 months ago
Biden and the Border: Ahilan Arulanantham, plus Amy Wilentz on Haiti
When Biden took office, progressives looked forward to a dramatic transformation of Trump’s anti-immigrant policies—and Biden’s initial moves were pr…
4 years, 3 months ago