


Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

“The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” w/ Bandy X. Lee, M.D., Yale Forensic Psychiatrist

Corruption and Complicity: Democracy on the Brink (with Robert Maguire of CREW)

Unconscionable: Trump’s Lame Duck Rush To Execute Inmates w/Liliana Segura of The Intercept
Liliana Segura is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the U.S. criminal justice system, with a longtime focus on harsh sentencing, the death penalty, and wrongful convictions. She was previously an associate editor at the Nation Magazine, where she edited a number of award-winning stories and earned a 2014 Media for a Just Society Award for her writing on prison profiteering. While at The Intercept, Segura has received the Texas Gavel Award in 2016 and the 2017 Innocence Network Journalism Award for her investigations into convictions in Arizona and Ohio. In 2019 she was honored in the Abolitionist category of the Frederick Douglass 200, a recognition given by the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.
Segura has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, CNN International, Democracy Now!, and numerous other outlets. Her speaking engagements have included public interviews with authors such as Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Colorlines, and has been reprinted in outlets ranging from prison magazines to the anthologies “The Best American Legal Writing” and “Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You.” She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Epic Fail: The Trump Legal Team’s Courtroom Debacles (with Zoe Tillman from BuzzFeed)
Zoe Tillman, senior reporter @BuzzFeedNews (courts, justice, and the intersection of law and politics) joins David to discuss the most recent news regarding the legal aspects of the Trump-Biden transition.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman
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http://linkedin.com/in/zoetillman

A Nation in Crisis: American Rule (Jared Yates Sexton)
ABOUT AMERICAN RULE: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People (Jared Yates Sexton)
From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation’s founding to the twenty-first century, which examines and debunks the American myths we’ve always told ourselves.
In recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying developments in politics and culture: stolen elections, fascist rallies, families torn apart and locked away. A common refrain erupts at each new atrocity: This isn’t who we are.
In American Rule, Jared Yates Sexton upends those convenient fictions by laying bare the foundational myths at the heart of our collective American imagination. From the very origins of this nation, Americans in power have abused and subjugated others; enabling that corruption are the many myths of American exceptionalism and steadfast values, which are fed to the public and repeated across generations. Working through each era of American growth and change, Sexton weaves together the origins and perpetuation of these narratives still in the public memory, and the acts we have chosen to forget.
Stirring, deeply researched, and disturbingly familiar, American Rule is a call to examine our own misconceptions of what it means, and has always meant, to be an American.

A Nation in Crisis: How We Got Here
ABOUT AMERICAN RULE: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People (Jared Yates Sexton)
From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation’s founding to the twenty-first century, which examines and debunks the American myths we’ve always told ourselves.
In recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying developments in politics and culture: stolen elections, fascist rallies, families torn apart and locked away. A common refrain erupts at each new atrocity: This isn’t who we are.
In American Rule, Jared Yates Sexton upends those convenient fictions by laying bare the foundational myths at the heart of our collective American imagination. From the very origins of this nation, Americans in power have abused and subjugated others; enabling that corruption are the many myths of American exceptionalism and steadfast values, which are fed to the public and repeated across generations. Working through each era of American growth and change, Sexton weaves together the origins and perpetuation of these narratives still in the public memory, and the acts we have chosen to forget.
Stirring, deeply researched, and disturbingly familiar, American Rule is a call to examine our own misconceptions of what it means, and has always meant, to be an American.

Americans worry about 2020 being another 2000, but the real worry is another 1876
Rachel Shelden joins David Oddo to talk about her recent Washington Post article, and why an unclear election outcome in a deeply polarized time might be dangerous.
Rachel Shelden is an associate professor of history at Penn State and director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center.

On Fascism: 12 Lessons From American History (with Matthew C. MacWilliams)
David talks with Matthew MacWilliams about his new book, the state of America, and what a President Trump means to our country.
Order the book here: https://www.matthewmacwilliams.com
Matthew C. MacWilliams is a scholar, an award-winning practitioner of American politics, and a recognized expert on authoritarianism. A respected author, his research on President Donald Trump and authoritarianism sparked international debate and is at the heart of his latest book, On Fascism: 12 Lessons From American History.
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism