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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”
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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
On today’s show: “Ultimate Grifter”: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs and Take Credit for Saving Economy As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Remembers Pope Francis for Progressive Views and for Embracing the Global South Trump’s … Continued
On today’s show: “America, América”: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis
On today’s show: Remembering Pope Francis on Earth Day: How He Linked Capitalism, Climate, and Catholicism “The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction and Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk Vijay Prashad: Historic 1955 Anti-Colonial Bandung Conference Inspired New Era in Global South