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On today’s show: Who Killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Reporter’s Family Responds After Film Names Israeli Soldier Who Shot Her “Fascism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Gaza, and Leaving MSNBC to Start Zeteo

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On today’s show: Who Killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Reporter’s Family Responds After Film Names Israeli Soldier Who Shot Her “Fascism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Gaza, and Leaving MSNBC to Start Zeteo
On today’s show: “A Dangerous Escalation”: India Bombs Pakistan in Intensification of “Forever War” over Kashmir “Columbia Knew”: Survivors Win Historic $750M from University Hospital in OB-GYN Sex Abuse Settlement Rodney Scott, Trump’s CBP Nominee, Accused of Covering Up Death of Mexican Father in CBP Custody
On today’s show: Trump’s Newest Grift: Molly White on First Family’s Cryptocurrency Empire and Gutting of Regulations Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can’t Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving Nurse: Israel’s “Horrific Trifecta” of Starvation, Siege, and Bombings Creates Maternal Health Disaster
On today’s show: “Chilling”: Wisconsin Governor Evers Pushes Back After Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Him “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right, “Don’t Believe in the Future”
On today’s show: Gaza Aid Flotilla Attacked by Drones in International Waters; Organizers Blame Israel “Losing Our Democracy”: Workers and Immigrants Lead Nationwide May Day Protests Against Trump “Palestine Is Really the Center of the World”: Angela Davis on Gaza, Black-Jewish Solidarity, and Trump Badar Khan Suri Is a Peace Scholar at Georgetown; Now He’s … Continued
On today’s show: “I Am Not Afraid of You”: Mohsen Mahdawi’s Defiant Message to Trump After Release from ICE Jail in VT “They Shattered Our Dreams”: New York Father Recounts How ICE Snatched His Son and Sent Him to El Salvador Is Trump’s “Minerals Deal” a Fossil Fuel Shakedown? Antonia Juhasz on New U.S.-Ukraine Agreement … Continued
ON TODAY’S SHOW: “Trump Is Trying to Break Us”: Trump Threats to Annex Canada Help Liberal Party Win Critical Election DOGE Is Going Global: Elon Musk Is Inspiring Right-Wing Efforts Abroad to Gut Government Programs Viet Thanh Nguyen on 50 Years After Vietnam War, Trump’s “Ugly American” Politics, El Salvador & More “To Save and to … Continued
On today’s show: “Taking Our Power Back”: Immigrants and Workers Plan for May Day Protests, as Trump Marks 100 Days “The Hollow Half”: Palestinian American Sarah Aziza on Gaza, Generational Trauma, Anorexia, and Exile
On today’s show: Three U.S. Citizen Children, Including 4-Year-Old Battling 4th Stage Cancer, Deported to Honduras “Abuse of Power”: Trump Admin’s “Bizarre” Arrest of Milwaukee Judge Shocks Legal Community Former Social Security Chief Martin O’Malley Warns of “Collapse of the Entire System” Under Trump
On today’s show: “Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots, and Vampires “Musk Is Scamming the City of Memphis”: Meet Two Brothers Fighting Colossus, Musk’s xAI Data Center