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Trump hospitalized with COVID-19 on Friday, out and maskless on Monday: what is wrong with this picture? Jeet Heer has some answers. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Donald Trump is seen by many as a brilliant, self-made-billionaire business success. Forbes senior editor Dan Alexander, after years of reporting on this very topic, begs to differ.  Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Guest: John Nichols, of the Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine. He joins us to talk about everything electoral: Supreme Court, taxes, Biden, that “debate”!

Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Anthropologist/ ethnobotanist Dr. Wade Davis on how COVID signals the end of the American era.  Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. His award-winning books include Into the Silence, The Wayfinders, and his latest, Magdalena: River of Dreams. He wrote the article The Unraveling of America for Rolling Stone.

Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Dr. Clarence Lusane, award-winning historian, addresses the politicization of the Post Office.  PLUS: the Town Crier, Raymond Nat Turner. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Is teaching about the history of racism in America unpatriotic? The current administration says it is, and they have funding cuts to back them up.  We hear another view. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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This is the cover article of the current Nation Magazine. The author, Sasha Abramsky, joins us, with the details, and some GOOD news. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Fires continue to burn on the West Coast.  We get a report from Pulitzer-winning journalist Julie Cart.  PLUS: Raymond Nat Turner, the Town Crier.  Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Warnings of Russian interference in the 2020 US. elections are increasing.  How bad is it?  Compared to U.S. interference in foreign elections? David Shimer tells us.  Hosted by Kris Welch.

Guest: David Shimer is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an Associate Fellow at Yale University. He is the author of Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference.

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“Fascist principles now operate at so many levels of every day society that is is difficult to recognize them,” says scholar Henry Giroux. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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