Facepalm America

UCLA Professor of Law Jonathan Zasloff talks about how the Oakland Athletics might be stopped from moving to Las Vegas with a 40 year-legal precedent. Read his op-ed here: https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4049840-the-cure-for-sports-blackmail-have-your-city-take-over-the-team/

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Professor Jean Pfaelzer, author of California, a Slave State joins us to discuss California's long and complicated history as a slave state. This is part one of a three part episode with Jean diving into the history of California natives.

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More charges in the documents indictment against Donald Trump. We bring you the details.

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A fantasy campaign in which Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put up a serious fight against the big drug companies that are suing Medicare over drug price negotiations.

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As Kevin McCarthy uses the threat of impeachment as a political tool, we harken back to Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and what she said about it five decades ago this week.

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The big drug companies are suing Medicare over having to negotiate drug prices and a fantasy in which Joe Biden puts up a serious fight against them.

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This week's Facepalm America report: Children and capitalism; Wisconsin and 8 other states are pushing for minors as young as 14 to be able to serve alcohol at restaurants.

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More child labor madness in America, from child bartenders in still more states, to kids literally being crushed to death on the job.

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We talk with Stephen Bright and James Kwak about their book The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts about racial prejudice in the judicial system as well as the death penalty.

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Our guest is Rachel Louise Martin, author of A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation in America. She talks with us about Clinton, Tennessee in 1956 and the experiences of students living through the beginning of desegregation and how it compares to schools today.

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