Donald Trump has named a new CIA Director, Gina Haspel as part of his major reshuffle of agency heads. Haspel is the current Deputy Director of the CIA and has a sordid past in the CIA’s torture program under George W. Bush. On today’s show we’ll speak with Maha Hilal a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies about it. Then, Kevin Lyman, the organizer of the Vans Warped Tour got tired of seeing people impacted by opioid addiction in his business and of seeing government doing little to nothing about the crisis, so he started a new project called Preventum/Fend Initiative and on our show today he’ll tell us all about it. Finally, best-selling and award-winning author Jeanne Theoharis joins us to discuss her powerful and relevant new book, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History.
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