Seven months after Capitol riots, we still haven't confronted what caused them

Published: July 20, 2021, 3:25 p.m.

b'It\\u2019s been seven months since Donald Trump\\u2019s supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC in an attempt to overturn the general election results. Was it merely a short but shocking fluke perpetrated by a handful of fanatics, or a sign of the right\\u2019s long (and continued) political slide towards open authoritarianism? In our first segment for this week\\u2019s episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc talks with author, journalist, and historian of the American right Rick Perlstein about the historical roots of the Capitol riots and the very dangerous political path we\\u2019re still on, even with Trump out of office. Perlstein\\u2019s most recent book, the fourth in an award-winning series investigating the history of modern American conservatism, is Reaganland: America\\u2019s Right Turn 1976\\u20131980.

In our second segment, we bring you the latest installment of our ongoing series \\u201cNot in Our Name,\\u201d which highlights the diverse voices of Jewish activists, artists, intellectuals, and others who are speaking out against the Israeli occupation. In this installment, Marc is joined by author and scholar Marjorie Cohn to discuss the significance of current Palestinian resistance to, and international condemnation of, the violence of Israeli occupation. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and a member of the bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the advisory board of Veterans for Peace. She is the author of numerous books, including The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse, and Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues.\\ufeff

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