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On today’s show:

0:15 – Dr. Monica Gandhi (@MonicaGandhi9) joins us to discuss how she plans to keep her family safe from COVID during Thanksgiving and measures to take if some members of the family aren’t fully vaccinated and or otherwise immunocompromised.

0:33 – David J. Silverman, a professor of history at George Washington University discusses his book This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.

1:33 – Will Evans (@willCIR), senior reporter and producer for Reveal joins us to discuss his latest piece on how Amazon handles your data.

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On today’s show:

0:08 – We unpack closing arguments in the Ahmaud Arbery case with Christopher Bruce, Policy Director with the ACLU of Georgia (@ACLUofGA).

0:33 – Angelica Salas, Executive Director of @CHIRLA – The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights joins us to discuss national immigration policy and immigration provisions inside of the Build Back Better bill.

1:08 – We spend the second hour with David Wengrow (@davidwengrow), professor of comparative archaeology at University College London. We discuss his latest book, co-authored with the late David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.

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0:08 – November  (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation joins us to discuss the Build Back Better bill that just passed the house and heads to the Senate this week.

0:33 – More of your COVID science questions answered by Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

1:08 – Ruth Conniff (@rconniff), Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Examiner, Sandra Freeman, Executive Director and Senior Staff Attorney at the Civil Liberties Defense Center (@CLDC) in Eugene, Oregon and James Clark, a criminal defense attorney in Austin, Texas join us to discuss the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

1:34 – Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter joins us to discuss Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s repeal of three controversial farm bills after a year-long farmers’ protest in India.

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On today’s show:

0:08 – Dr. Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr), Associate Professor of African Studies at Howard University and Adjunct Professor of Law at Howard University’s School of Law joins us to discuss the month long student protest at Howard University.

0:34 – We rebroadcast this 2019 interview with Bryant Terry (@bryantterry), vegan chef, food justice activist, and author. His latest book is Black Food.

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