Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, joins the show to break down the Trump administration’s unlawful deportation of hundreds of immigrants, including Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia, “mistakenly” sent to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. A month later, no one held at CECOT has been allowed to contact their families—not even to confirm they’re alive. Reichlin-Melnick unpacks the human cost, Trump’s refusal to bring Garcia home, and the chilling possibility that U.S. citizens could be next.

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Zoe Alexandra, Editor of Peoples Dispatch, joins the show to discuss Ecuador’s April 13 election “irregularities”, where right-wing incumbent Daniel Noboa was declared the winner despite polls favoring progressive presidential candidate Luisa González, who calls it "the most grotesque election fraud in Ecuador’s history" and demands a recount. Alexandra explains how Ecuador’s year-and-a-half-long state of emergency has “had a chilling effect on people's participation in a democratic process.”

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Trump's trade war against China is escalating, but so far it seems to have only facilitated a growing political and economic isolation of the United States. Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the real motives behind Trump’s seemingly chaotic tariff declarations, including how Greenland factors in, and what may lie ahead.

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US President Donald Trump has met Qatari and American business leaders in Doha ahead of his departure for the United Arab Emirates - the final stop on his regional tour. President Trump hailed the trade agreements signed between the US and Qatar. He also praised Qatar’s efforts in negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal. Trump said he wants to negotiate with Iran and see the country reintegrated into the global trade system.

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Anwar Ibrahim came to power in Malaysia soon after ex-PM Najib Razak was jailed for his role in the $4.5bn 1MDB financial scandal. He has faced criticism after a royal pardon slashed Najib’s sentence while alleged 1MDB mastermind, Jho Low, remains at large. Anwar leads ASEAN this year as it confronts Donald Trump’s tariffs and rising transnational crime, including a cyber-scam industry in Cambodia worth billions of dollars.

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This documentary short explores the life and times of the filmmaker’s Palestinian grandparents, Naim Azar and Wadee’a Aghabi , and the consequences they suffered in Jaffa because of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Zionists in 1948. Their lives are recounted through the oral testimonies of the couple’s three daughters and other relatives. The film weaves together personal memories to depict a couple’s life before their expulsion—and the lasting impact of displacement on their family.

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Trump increased already huge tariffs today, bringing total tariffs on China to 125% of goods (at 104% at the time of recording). China has retaliated, and the stock market plunged $7 trillion in value after tariffs were announced last week (before bouncing back after this recording). Trump says this is about bringing back jobs, but what is the reality? Brian Becker and Eugene Puryear discuss Trump’s real goals.

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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Farah Nabulsi joins Rania Khalek on Dispatches to talk about her powerful new film The Teacher, an emotional and political drama set in the occupied West Bank. Inspired by true events, The Teacher follows a Palestinian schoolteacher as he confronts personal trauma, settler violence, and the capture of an Israeli soldier by the resistance, forcing impossible moral decisions that reflect the brutal reality of life under military occupation.

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Brian Goldstone, author of “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” joins the show to discuss the alarming new epidemic of full-time workers falling into homelessness. Goldstone argues that skyrocketing rents, low wages, and weak tenant protections are making the “working homeless” the new face of the nation’s housing crisis.

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As Trump escalates the crackdown on student activists, recently expelled and fired Columbia student Grant Miner joins the show to discuss the growing resistance. Miner, president of the Student Workers of Columbia-UAW, was fired just one day before UAW contract negotiations with the university were set to begin, and just days after ICE agents abducted Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil. “The movement isn’t stopping. Students are more fired up than ever. They think playing dirty will stamp it out– but it won’t work,” says Miner. Now, he’s joining thousands in Washington, DC, on April 5 to protest the targeting of students who have been standing with Palestine. “We need to show Trump that Americans won’t stand for people being abducted in the service of arming a foreign genocide and apartheid state.”

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