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Deporting the immigrants called “undesirable” -- now, under Trump, and a hundred years ago.  Historian Adam Hochschild notes that  it’s the 100th anniversary of the Palmer Raids, where J Edgar Hoover got his start, rounding up and trying to deport radical immigrants—and when one heroic Labor Department official blocked thousands of deportations.

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Martin Scorcese’s new film “The Irishman” opens on Netflix this week; it claims to tell the true story of the murder of Jimmy Hoffa, the head of the Teamsters Union, who disappeared in 1974.  But nobody who’s studied that history thinks the movie is right about what happened to Hoffa.  Does that fact change our judgement about the film?  John Powers comments; he’s critic at large for Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

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Rick Perlstein says the Nixon impeachment committees limited the charges against the president in order to win a Republican majority in the Senate; since that’s not going to happen with Trump, the Democrats might as well include all his high crimes in their articles of impeachment.

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Historian Eric Foner talks about the New York Times’s “1619 Project,” which argues that the legacy of slavery is central to all of the American past and present—including the White House today.

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Why Joe Biden is the wrong candidate to take on Donald Trump: D.D. Guttenplan, The Nation’s editor, explains why the magazine has published an “anti-endorsement.”

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This week the Supreme Court heard arguments about the fate of DACA residents--whether those young people brought here as small children should be deported.  But why should that be decided by the nine justices on the Supreme Court?  In a democracy, shouldn’t that be decided democratically?  That’s Thom Hartmann’s argument--not just about DACA, but about all of judicial review.  His new book is The Hidden History of the Supreme Court.

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More young people have favorable views of socialism than they do of capitalism these days--but what IS socialism'?  Paul Adler explains; his new book is The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism.

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One of our favorite writers, John le Carré, has a new book out: Agent Running in the Field--they're calling it his "Brexit book."  It’s number five on the best seller list.  He’s now 88 years old, he’s written twenty-six books, which have been published in over 50 countries and 40 languages.  The books are about loyalty and betrayal, and many are about the ambiguities of the Cold War.  John Powers comments-–he’s Critic-at-Large on “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross.

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Haiti is at the brink of collapse—Amy Wilentz reports on the fruits of "pure capitalism" in one of Trump’s “shithole countries.”

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