Background Briefing

Jon Hoffman / Greg Sargent / Jason Stanley

Foreign Policy in Tonight’s Harris/Trump Debate, and Who’s Finger Would You Rather Have on the Nuclear Button
Democratic “Irrational Exuberance” With the Polls and “Sane-Washing” by the Mainstream Media
We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press


Guest: Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She is a co-author of Give Me Liberty! and coeditor … Continued


Law & Disorder

The Shortfalls of Public Health Policy Towards Gun Violence w/ Jonathan Metzl – Fall Fund Drive Special

Today’s show features Jonathan M. Metzl, the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. Metzl is the award-winning author of seven books including Dying of Whiteness and his latest book What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country … Continued