Donald Trump’s War on Drugs.  How to make a bad idea even worse. And Bill Press on a life in the crosshairs of American politics.

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This week, drug policy analyst Sanho Tree on why death penalties for dealers will be a colossal failure and why progressive democrats need to care about the opioid epidemic. Plus from seminary student to progressive activist and talk show host …  Bill Press on his new memoir.

 

Sanho Tree

America’s War on Drugs is almost fifty years old. Drug policy analyst Sanho Tree says it’s been fifty years of failure that Donald Trump is only making worse.   

 

Bill Press

A conversation with Bill Press on his life, and the making of one of America’s leading voices for progressive politics.

 

Jim Hightower

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