Episode 390: Pete Quinones on Slavery and the...

Red Heifers, Holocausts, Israel & Iran  

Tim joins Pete to talk about the recent violence in Palestine. They discuss its history, the propaganda surrounding the war, social media's response, as well as brewing dissent in the US state department. 

Republicans claim the election was stolen. They use those claims to justify suppressing people’s right to vote. All of it happening amid a national reckoning on race. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson tell the story of a time uncannily similar to our own – in the early 1960 ...

The Senate’s trial and acquittal of Donald Trump left many with mixed emotions. But did it move us any closer to a reckoning with the worst of America’s political culture?  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight returns to the show to help Kai put the trial in historical c ...  Show more

By now you’ve certainly heard about the historic prosecution of Donald Trump, as the former president pleaded not guilty this week to a rash of charges stemming from an alleged hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. L ...  Show more

This episode includes discussion of sexual violence. Jurors found former President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in the civil lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, who says Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store. While the jurors did not find that T ...  Show more