The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega

The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega

106 episodes

The truth will set you free. Each week on "The Truth Report", Salon politics and culture writer Chauncey DeVega searches for personal, philosophical, empirical, and moral truth with New York Times best-selling authors, leading opinion makers and other experts on politics, history, social justice, the creative arts, human rights, the economy, technology, and the Age of Trump.

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Ep. 127: Rich Logis Escaped the Trump - MAGA Cult -- Heed His Warnings About Its Power and Extreme Danger to America

Published: Nov. 18, 2023, 2:43 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 10 seconds

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Ep. 124: Chris Hedges Warns That "The News" and "The Truth" are Not The Same Thing

Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 7:02 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 54 seconds

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Ep. 123: Reflecting on Gratitude and Thankfulness on This Thanksgiving Day 2022

Published: Nov. 24, 2022, 9:24 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 12 seconds

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Ep. 122: The Republican Party's "Red Tide" of Fascist Sewage Didn't Fully Drown the American People

Published: Nov. 17, 2022, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 14 seconds

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Ep. 121: American Democracy and Freedom are on the Ballot in the 2022 Midterm Elections

Published: Nov. 7, 2022, 9 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 45 seconds

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Ep. 119: The South Side of Chicago is Not a Problem to be Solved, It is a Home for the American Spirit

Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 10:06 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 23 seconds

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Ep. 118: Nuclear Espionage? More Proof That Donald Trump is The Worst President in American History and a Traitor

Published: Aug. 17, 2022, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 53 seconds

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Ep. 115: The White Supremacist Terrorist Attack in Buffalo and How White Privilege is Lethal

Published: May 19, 2022, 3:41 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 41 seconds

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Ep. 113: Chris Hedges Reflects on the New Censorship and Authoritarianism of the 21st Century

Published: April 9, 2022, 5:04 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 41 seconds

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Ep. 112: The Shame Machine And Who is Profiting From This New Age of Humiliation

Published: March 27, 2022, 4:27 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 57 seconds

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Ep. 111: The Republican Fascist Threats of Violence Are Very Real

Published: March 16, 2022, 5:23 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 15 seconds

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Ep. 110: Racism Will Bring America's Ultimate Destruction

Published: March 13, 2022, 2:29 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 6 seconds

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Ep. 109: Donald Trump and the Republican Neofascists Have Pushed America to the Brink of a Second Civil War

Published: Feb. 6, 2022, 6:31 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 34 seconds

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Ep. 108: Fascism is Breaking Time and Reality in America

Published: Jan. 3, 2022, 9:49 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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Ep. 106: The Jim Crow Republican "Critical Race Theory" Bogeyman is Powered by White Rage

Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 8:21 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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Ep. 105: How the Jim Crow Republicans are Going to Steal the 2022 Midterm and 2024 Presidential Elections

Published: Oct. 22, 2021, 8:13 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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Ep. 104: Remembering Sociologist James Loewen

Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 5:05 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 37 seconds

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Ep. 103: Donald Trump is Not Going Away -- No Matter How Much You Wish He Would

Published: Sept. 26, 2021, 5:37 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 36 seconds

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Ep. 102: Eric Eyre Explains How the Drug Companies Created the Opioid Crisis in Appalachia and Beyond

Published: Sept. 9, 2021, 7:44 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 54 seconds

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Ep. 101: "War Made Easy" and the Pitfalls and Lies of American Empire and its Forever Wars

Published: Aug. 26, 2021, 5:21 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 6 seconds

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Ep. 100: Donald Trump's Fascist Attacks on American Democracy Are Escalating

Published: July 29, 2021, 2:45 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 54 seconds

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Ep. 99: Never Forget Donald Trump and His (Almost) Military Coup

Published: July 26, 2021, 6:25 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 45 seconds

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Ep. 98: Joe Biden is The Right President at the Wrong Time in America's Fight Against Neofascism

Published: July 24, 2021, 10:55 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds

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Ep.97: On This July 4th Independence Day, America's Democracy is on Life Support

Published: July 4, 2021, 11:54 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes

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Ep. 96: The Jim Crow Republicans Continue to Outmaneuver the Democrats

Published: June 24, 2021, 4:06 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds

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Ep. 95: The Trump Regime's Coup Never Stopped

Published: June 19, 2021, 5:57 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 29 seconds

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Ep. 94: What Will Happen When the United States and China Finally Go to War

Published: May 30, 2021, 6:23 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Ep. 92: She is No Friend of Democracy -- Liz Cheney Helped to Create Trumpism

Published: May 20, 2021, 6:22 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Ep. 91: Donald Trump and His Regime Shortened the Lifespans of the American People

Published: May 12, 2021, 4:55 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds

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Ep. 90: Today's Republicans are Deadly Real Life Cartoon Villains

Published: May 8, 2021, 4:33 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds

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Ep. 87: Anne Nelson Explains the Right-wing Shadow Network And Its War on American Democracy and Freedom

Published: March 24, 2021, 5:11 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 44 seconds

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Ep. 86: The Dangers Facing America's “Democracy” and Future Are Much Greater Than Trumpism

Published: March 3, 2021, 2:55 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds

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Ep. 85: Donald Trump's Political Cult Members Are Experiencing a Psychological Emergency

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 11:54 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds

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Ep. 84: Chris Hedges Warns That President Joe Biden Will Not Stop America's Descent Into Corporate Totalitarianism

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 5:51 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 2 seconds

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Ep. 82: Tim Wise Explains How White Privilege Fueled Trump's Coup Attempt and Assault on the US Capitol Building

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 7:19 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 27 seconds

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Ep. 80: Futurist John Feffer on His Hopes and Worries for America and the World in the Year 2021 and Beyond

Published: Jan. 1, 2021, 6:03 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 16 seconds

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Ep. 78: Donald Trump Will Never Stop Menacing the American People

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 19 seconds

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Ep. 77: Wajahat Ali Has Spent Several Years "Reaching Out" to Trump Supporters -- And It Did Not Go Well

Published: Dec. 4, 2020, 7:55 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds

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Ep. 76: Ruth Ben-Ghiat Explains Donald Trump's Coup

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 8:23 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds

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Ep. 72: The Chauncey DeVega Show -- Election Day 2020: Hoping for the Best and Preparing for the Worst

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 9:07 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 54 seconds

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Ep. 71: Political Violence and the 2020 Election

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 3:37 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 41 seconds

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Ep. 70: Donald Trump is Something Much More Dangerous Than an Apparent Sociopath or Psychopath

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 5:24 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 37 seconds

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Ep. 69: Ralph Nader Explains that the Worse Things Get for Regular People the More Powerful Big Business Becomes

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 6:14 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 4 seconds

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Ep. 67: Philosopher Cornel West Reflects on Donald Trump, the Virus, and Questions of Karma and Justice

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 4:21 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 50 seconds

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Ep. 66: The American People are Living in Donald Trump's Horrible Reality TV Show And Cannot Escape It

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 6:45 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds

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Ep. 64: Authoritarianism, the Pandemic, and Trump's War on Science and the Truth

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 8:31 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 11 seconds

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Ep. 63: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Put America's Multiracial Democracy on Life Support

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 2:26 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 17 seconds

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Ep. 62: Vladimir Putin is Donald Trump's "Honey Trap"

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 8:50 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 32 seconds

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Ep. 61: The Republican Party is Dying Because There Are Not Enough White People

Published: Aug. 31, 2020, 6:29 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 39 seconds

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Ep. 59: Vladimir Putin Is Coaching Donald Trump In How To Be an Even More Powerful and Dangerous Authoritarian

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 3:43 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds

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Ep. 58: Donald Trump Should Be Criminally Prosecuted for His Willfully Negligent Response to The Pandemic

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 5:16 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 9 seconds

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Ep. 57: Donald Trump is Bullying the American People

Published: July 31, 2020, 4:11 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 57 seconds

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Ep. 56: Denial and Fear Will Not Save The American People From Donald Trump's Fascist Assaults

Published: July 23, 2020, 5:04 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 9 seconds

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Ep. 53: Mike Davis Warns That The Pandemic is The First of Many Disasters Which Will Change The World As We Know It

Published: July 9, 2020, 7:07 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 34 seconds

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Ep. 49: Jason Stanley Warns That Donald Trump is Using the Pandemic to Destroy Every Aspect of American Democracy

Published: May 11, 2020, 3:29 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds

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Ep. 47: Tim Wise Explains How White Privilege is Making the Pandemic Much Worse

Published: April 21, 2020, 6:13 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Ep. 46: Don Winslow Explains How Donald Trump is Everything Wrong with American Masculinity

Published: April 15, 2020, 6:28 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 27 seconds

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Ep. 45: How Donald Trump Will Use Mail-in Voting and the Coronavirus to Steal the 2020 Presidential Election

Published: April 11, 2020, 8:51 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds

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Ep. 44: Understanding the Power of Donald Trump's Coronavirus Death Cult

Published: April 6, 2020, 6:21 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 9 seconds

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Ep. 43: Navigating the Coronavirus Pandemic and Then Making a Better America and World

Published: March 31, 2020, 6:20 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 25 seconds

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Ep. 42: How Social Inequality in America is Making the Coronavirus Even More Deadly

Published: March 19, 2020, 5:28 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 55 seconds

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Ep. 41: Rachel Bitecofer Explains Why Bernie Sanders Has a Better Chance Than Joe Biden of Beating Donald Trump

Published: March 6, 2020, 8:44 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 36 seconds

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Ep. 40: Greg Palast Explains How Donald Trump Will Steal the 2020 Presidential Election

Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 9:37 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

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Ep. 39: "Star Trek's" Walter Koenig Reflects on Humanity's Future, Hope, and Despair in the Age of Trump

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 12:10 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds

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Ep. 38: After Impeachment Donald Trump is the Jim Jones of American Presidents

Published: Feb. 16, 2020, 4:40 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 30 seconds

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Ep. 37: Are Donald Trump and His Inner Circle Manipulating the Stock Market For Their Own Personal Gain?

Published: Jan. 26, 2020, 9:28 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 22 seconds

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Ep. 36: Will the Democratic Party Implode If Bernie Sanders Is Not Their 2020 Presidential Nominee?

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 1:49 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 44 seconds

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Ep. 35: Ruth Ben-Ghiat Explains What Comes Next in Donald Trump's Authoritarian Assault on Democracy

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 2:21 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 52 seconds

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Ep. 34: David Maraniss on What Does It Mean to be a "Real American"....And Who Gets to Decide?

Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 5:39 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds

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Ep. 32: Chris Hedges Warns That Impeaching Donald Trump Will Not Save America's Dying Empire

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 2:32 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 38 seconds

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Ep. 28: "Never Trump" Patriot Tom Nichols Reflects on What It Was Like to be Called "Human Scum" by Donald Trump

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 11:06 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 2 seconds

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Ep. 27: Brian Klaas Warns That American Democracy May Be Doomed if Donald Trump Wins Again in 2020

Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 4:35 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 32 seconds

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Ep. 26: Steven Hassan Explains Is It Possible to Deprogram Donald Trump's Political Cult Members?

Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 7:31 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds

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Ep. 25: Philip Zimbardo Explains the Psychology of Evil Inside of Trump's Concentration Camps

Published: Oct. 18, 2019, 10:56 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 4 seconds

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Ep. 24: Dr. Justin Frank Explains the Real Reason that Donald Trump Hates the Ukraine Scandal Whistleblower

Published: Oct. 2, 2019, 8:03 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds

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Ep. 22: Christopher Leonard on "Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America"

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 1:40 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 35 seconds

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Ep. 21: The Chosen One -- From Pat Robertson and The 700 Club to Donald Trump the Christian Fascist

Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 24 seconds

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Ep. 20: Tim Alberta on "American Carnage" and How Donald Trump Seduced a Very Eager and Willing Republican Party

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 8:16 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 9 seconds

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Ep. 17: Tim Wise on White Rage, Donald Trump, and America's "Race War"

Published: Aug. 2, 2019, 4:57 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 54 seconds

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Ep. 16: Dr. Bandy Lee Warns That Donald Trump is Emotionally Empty Inside and Spiraling Even More Out of Control

Published: July 24, 2019, 3:41 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds

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Ep. 15: Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh Reflects on a Life of Speaking Truth to Power

Published: July 22, 2019, 2:55 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds

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Ep. 14: Joy-Ann Reid Explains How Donald Trump Represents Everything Wrong With America

Published: July 22, 2019, 2:42 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 31 seconds

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Ep. 13: Eve Ensler on Righteous Anger, Forgiveness and Her New Book "The Apology"

Published: July 11, 2019, 8:15 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds

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Ep. 12: Human Rights Attorney Hope Frye on the Evils She Witnessed Inside of Trump's Concentration Camps

Published: July 9, 2019, 8:13 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 30 seconds

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Ep. 11: Jared Diamond on the Four Factors That Could End America's Global Dominance

Published: June 24, 2019, 9:53 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 12 seconds

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Ep. 10: Dr. John Gartner Explains How Donald Trump's Poor Mental Health is Grounds for Impeachment

Published: June 20, 2019, 7:37 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 26 seconds

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Ep. 9: Michael Wolff on Discerning Truth From Lies in His New Book "Siege: Trump Under Fire"

Published: June 18, 2019, 7:46 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes

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Ep. 7: W. Kamau Bell on Truth-telling and His CNN Series United Shades of America

Published: June 10, 2019, 7:39 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 46 seconds

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Ep. 6: Malcolm Nance Warns That Post-Mueller Report America May Not Survive Donald Trump's Assaults on Democracy

Published: May 26, 2019, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds

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Ep. 5: Kathleen Belew Explains the Long History of the White Power Movement and its Global Plans for "Race War"

Published: May 26, 2019, 10 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 27 seconds

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Ep. 4: Jonathan Metzl Explains How Donald Trump's Voters are Dying of Whiteness

Published: May 26, 2019, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 3 seconds

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Ep. 3: Tim Wise on White Privilege and the Varsity Blues College Cheating Scandal

Published: May 26, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 48 seconds

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Ep. 2: Tim Wise on the New Zealand Mosque Massacres and the Violence of White Privilege

Published: May 26, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 40 seconds

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Ep. 1: Laurence Tribe Explains Why Robert Mueller and Impeachment Will Not Save America From Donald Trump

Published: May 26, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 7 seconds

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