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SSG Gonell was one of the police officers who defended the capitol against insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021....

Jared’s book, The Midnight Kingdom, examines how the right has created a mythologized version of our country which allows them to push an extremis...

Khyati Joshi talks about both the subtle and extreme ways in which white christian privilege has embedded itself in American society....

Mark’s new book, The Fabulist, peels back the lies, grifts, and alter-egos of Santos to reveal who really represents the 3rd district of New York....

Guest host Amanda Weinstein and historian Nancy MacLean discuss the ways in which democracy has been slowly and systematically subverted by the ri...

Historian Kathleen Belew explains how the rhetoric used by Trump and Alt-Right groups is both dangerous and purposeful....

Katherine Stewart discusses her book, The Power Worshippers....

Propaganda expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat reveals how Trump is paving a path toward authoritarianism in the U.S.....

Former CIA officer Alex Finley discusses authoritarianism and how former Trump officials were susceptible to Russian influence....

Conspiracy Export Mike Rothschild discusses his new book, Jewish Space Lasers, which details how myths about a German-Jewish banking family have ...

Anne discusses the corruption within the Supreme Court and how certain “grassroots” conservative organizations have ties to powerful shadow networ...

Former Trump Administration official Miles Taylor discusses a potential Trump 2.0, and his new book, Blowback....

Journalist and author Sarah Posner reveals how many evangelicals have adopted and executed a platform of extremism....

Kristin describes how Evangelism has transformed, and its relationship to masculinity, oppression, and nationalism....

Stacey Abrams talks about her new book, Rogue Justice, and the systems that influence American life from the shadows....

Lutheran pastor and journalist Angela Denker discusses the evangelicals who voted for Trump, and her book, Red State Christians....

Political Reporter Will Sommer talks all things QAnon, and his new book, Trust the Plan....

Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld discusses political violence, the possibility of a Civil War, and extremism....

Senator from Illinois Tammy Duckworth reflects on her first term in office, the current issues facing the Senate, and what she hopes to accomplish...

Former Republican operative Stuart Stevens explains how the Republican Party has changed, and how he’s now working to counteract the movement he h...