Khannecting The Dots

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The modern homelessness crisis started under Reagan. Every president since has promised to fix it, and every one of them underfunded what they promised. This episode traces thirty-seven years — from the man who followed Reagan to the administration in court right now over four billion dollars — and ends with a president who didn't bother making the promise at all.

More than 745,000 Americans have nowhere to live tonight. Here's how we got there.

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In Part 2 of my homelessness arc, I go looking for the roots of the crisis we have now. This country has a long history of demonizing the poor and blaming them for their own problems — but what's on the streets today isn't four hundred years old. It's much more recent than that, and it didn't happen on its own. It's a story about choices, and how those choices led us to where we are today. 

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Homelessness in America isn't a mystery, and it isn't inevitable. Behind the myths about who ends up on the street is a simpler and more uncomfortable answer: housing. In this first part, we define the crisis as it stands today — taking the myths apart, one by one, to show how a system this broken keeps producing the same result. 

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Why does everything feel so broken — housing, healthcare, the sense that the economy works for everyone but you? It didn't happen by accident. As season 2 begins, I go back to Franklin Roosevelt's forgotten "economic bill of rights" — the promise of a living wage, a home, and healthcare for every American — and trace how it was deliberately dismantled over fifty years, by both parties, until we forgot it ever existed.   This is the story of what we lost — and the fight to get it back. 

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The two-state solution has defined the conversation around Israel-Palestine for decades. In this Season 1 finale — the fifth and final part of this series — I make the case that it was never real. It was always a framework designed to manage Palestinian oppression while calling it a peace process. And I lay out what I believe is the only honest alternative. 

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For decades, we've been told Israel wants peace but has no partner to negotiate with. In Part 4 of the Israel-Palestine myth series, we show the opposite is true — tracing how Israel created Hamas, crushed every Palestinian protest movement, ignored every peace offer, and has kept imprisoned for 23 years the one Palestinian leader its own Mossad director said could negotiate. The "no partner" myth isn't just false. It's a policy. 

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In Part 3 of my Myths of Israel-Palestine series, I examine the claim that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. In this episode, I trace the pattern from the founding documents to present day - examining the laws that codify discrimination, the mechanisms of control in the West Bank and Gaza, and why prominent scholars and major human rights organizations have reached the same conclusion. 

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In part 2 of my Israel-Palestine myth's series, I take a look at how Israel's "defensive" wars were actually planned expansion and how unconditional US backing enabled complete impunity. From 1967, to Sabra and Shatila, to "mowing the grass" in Gaza, Israel has operated under official doctrine of "intentional disproportionate force" while claiming self-defense. I examine the U.S. role in this impunity and what it means for understanding October 7th and Gaza today. 

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In a five-part series examining the myths that define the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I explore the truth behind the stories we’ve been told.

In Part 1, I take on the myth of Palestinian rejectionism — the claim that Palestinians have always rejected peace.

From the 1947 UN Partition Plan to the Oslo Accords, Camp David, and the 2008 negotiations, this episode examines what was actually offered, why those deals failed, and how the rejectionism narrative became one of the most powerful myths shaping the conflict.

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In Episode 25 of Khannecting the Dots, I come full circle — back to one of the main issues that pushed me to start this show: DEI.
After Trump blamed DEI for everything from plane crashes to institutional failure, corporations raced to roll back diversity programs. But the backlash was never really about policy — it was about power.
This episode breaks down how “DEI” became a coded scapegoat, why DEI succeeded in some places and failed in others, and how zero-sum fear keeps working people divided while wealth is extracted at the top. The alternative is solidarity — and building a bigger table. 

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