Guest: Dr. Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad  interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and  Women’s and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of  Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society.  She is the author of the book Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America. On Twitter (@keishablain), and on Instagram (@keishanblain).

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Guest: Sam Quinones is a journalist and former Los Angeles Times reporter, and author of three books including the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic.  His latest book is called The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth.

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Guest: Rich Rubino is a political analyst and author of several books including his latest, The Great American Political Trivia Challenge: Political Trivia on Steroids.  He is a contributor with The Huffington Post.

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Part I – An update on the Build Back Better Plan

Host Mitch Jeserich analyses the current situation of the Build Back Better legislation in Congress.

Part II – Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer

Guests:

Erica Payne is founder and president of the Patriotic Millionaires. She is the author of The Practical Progressive! and the co-author, with Morris Pearl, of Tax the Rich!.

Morris Pearl is a former managing director of BlackRock. He is chair of the Patriotic Millionaires and the co-author, with Erica Payne, of Tax the Rich!.

The Patriotic Millionaires is a group of hundreds of high-net-worth Americans committed to making all Americans better off by building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation, and ensuring that millionaires, billionaires, and corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

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