Facepalm America

According to a report on Thursday in ProPublica, Republican megadonor Harlan Crow paid for the private boarding school tuition of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' grandnephew. Today, we talk about the apparently low-budget cost of buying over a Surpreme Court Justice.

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We talk with Reid Wilson about voting demographics all across the country and how they've evolved and changed the past couple of years.

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General Peter Zwack joins us for a discussion of whether there could be another civil war in the United States, how the military might be involved, and how we can prevent if from happening. Retired Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack is a Wilson Center Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute. In 1980 he began his 34-year U.S. Army career as an intelligence and security officer in a nuclear capable artillery battalion. Three decades later, he served as the U.S. Senior Defense Attaché to the Russian Federation from 2012–2014. He is the author of Afghanistan Kabul Kurier: One Soldier's Story of the Taliban, Tribes & Loyalties, Opium Trade, & Burqa and Swimming the Volga: A U.S. Army Officer's Experiences in Pre-Putin Russia.

(Note: This is a reupload of an episode initially aired 12/31/21).

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Along with the censuring and censoring of Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, protestors supporting trans rights across the country are being arrested. Will 2023 be another Freedom Summer?

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We discuss the collapse of First Republic Bank and the other worrisome issues around yet andother financial failure.

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William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts and co-founder and president of the Academic-Industry Research Network, joins us to discuss pharmaceutical companies, executive pay, stock buybacks, and more. Read more here: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/sick-with-shareholder-value-us-pharmas-financialized-business-model-during-the-pandemic

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Beowulf speaks to Eric Levitz about whether inheritance transfers will trigger a "millennial civil war" and Daniel James Brown about Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II.

(Note: This is a reupload of an episode initially aired 04/08/22).

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(UPDATED: Previously, the wrong episode had been uploded.) We listen to the speeches of President Joe Biden (from the point where he starts making jokes) and Daily Show Correspondent Roy Wood Jr. To donate to the White House Correspondents' Association and the scholarships they provide to journalism students, go to whca.press

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All is not lost! Sure there are plenty of bad things to worry about, but here are some of the positive things that have happened on the American political scene this week.

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Did a child laborer help maker your car right here in the United States? According to a shocking new report, it might be the case. Read more here:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-fake-id-repeatedly-enabled-hyundai-suppliers-employ-child-labor-alabama-2023-04-27/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/23/child-labor-lobbying-fga/

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