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The Trump Administration is working overtime to lock-in key policies before they leave Washington. This week I look at some of the foreign policy implications of this effort and how even the stuff that doesn't seem too bad is, well, kind of bad. 

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Article on Somalia Atrocities in The Nation 

Democratic in-fighting in the wake of disappointing down-ballot results have focused largely on ideological differences. I try to make the argument that it may be more about a candidate's willingness to fight for his/her constituents.

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The only chance we have of getting any relief from the federal government is by flipping those two Georgia Senate seats blue. I talk about this issue, as well as the ongoing standoff over New York's 22nd Congressional district and why that race demonstrates that every vote counts. 

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It's no secret that Donald Trump's original plan in running for president was to lose, cry fraud, then build a media empire on the resulting aggrievement. He appears now to be returning to that plan as the end of his accidental presidency looms. 

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Biden's apparent electoral victory is due in large measure to the efforts of activists in the progressive movements on the ground to secure his majority. I talk about this and how pundits have the wrong end of the stick regarding Black and Latinx voters. 

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Juan Gonzales on exit poll data

The Republican Party has been playing a long game to hedge against the erosion of white power as America's demographics shift. I talk in broad strokes about the various pieces of this toxic enterprise and how it has become more overt in recent years. 

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This week I look at the second and final presidential debate with a focus on foreign policy issues in general and Korea in particular.  Not clear what to expect, but it's not looking good, folks. 

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Presidential Debate Transcript on Rev

This past week's dueling town halls offered little to cheer about. In this episode I look at Trump's Rolling COVID Review tour and dissect one of his most repeated lies about health coverage. 

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NY Times article about GOP 2017 Health Care bill

Our presidential and vice-presidential debates are contested on very narrow ideological ground, reflecting a consensus that significantly favors the right. I talk about this phenomenon in light of the recent Pence-Harris debate, and touch on Trump's recent Hulk-like posing. 

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Transcript of VP Debate (USA Today) 

With the president in Walter Reed battling COVID-19, I talk about how this health crisis affects all of us, how insane that first debate was, and how we need to battle the two dragons Nina Turner warned us about - neo-fascism and neo-liberalism - in the right order. 

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Majority Report plays Nina Turner clip