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Live from Taipei, New Bloom editor Brian Hioe on COVID-19 politics in Taiwan, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen follows a TV doctor's trail of snake oil.

Iranian studies scholar Hamid Dabashi on the failures of the nation-state as a frame for political power, and his new book "The Emperor is Naked: On the Inevitable Demise of the Nation-State" from Zed Books.

https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/the-emperor-is-naked/

Writer Cindy Milstein on self-determination and community organization under (and after) COVID-19 lockdown, and her new book "Deciding For Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy" from AK Press.

https://www.akpress.org/deciding-for-ourselves.html

Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on COVID-19 and authoritarian clown politics in Brazil, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen continues his fictional expose of a man who betrayed his calling in exchange for fame and fortune.

Writer Malcolm Harris on life in the wake of capitalism's global triumph, the state of dissent since Occupy, and his book "Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit: History Since the End of History" from Melville House.

https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/shit-is-fucked-up-and-bullshit/

Cosmonaut's Remi Debs Bruno and Medway Baker on COVID-19 and capitalism in crisis, why the future might finally be up for grabs, and their essay "The End of the End of History: COVID-19 and 21st Century Fascism."

https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/03/26/the-end-of-the-end-of-history-covid-19-and-21st-century-fascism/

Writer Danny Haiphong on what the left can learn about power and politics from the failures of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns.

Danny wrote the article "Bernie Sanders’ Exit from the Race Is Not Betrayal, It’s a Reality-Check" for the American Herald Tribune.

https://ahtribune.com/us/2020-election/4060-bernie-sanders-exit-reality-check.html

Seoul correspondent Marc Flury reports on Covid-19 policies in South Korea, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen follows a certain TV doctor's career from Caring Professional to Right-leaning Snake Oil Salesman [Part 1 of 4]

Rob Wallace and Alex Liebman on the ways the Coronavirus pandemic exposes the crises of capitalism in nature and society. Rob and Alex wrote the essay "Covid-19 and the Circuits of Capital" with Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace for Monthly Review.

https://monthlyreview.org/2020/04/01/covid-19-and-circuits-of-capital/

Historian Helen Yaffe on the characteristics of Cuba's longterm socialist revolution, and her new book "We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World" from Yale University Press.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300230031/we-are-cuba