Elections have consequences. This week, we kick off with Maura Ewing, a writer-in-residence at the Fair Punishment Project, talking about her piece for Slate on Philadelphia's newly elected District Attorney Larry Krasner and the "wild" and "unprecedented" criminal justice reforms he's been rolling out in his first few months in office.
Then we're joined by Greater Good editor Jeremy Adam Smith, who wrote a piece for Scientific American this week about why white men are stockpiling guns.
Finally, Katha Pollitt returns to the show to talk about what #Russiagate skeptics get wrong and why the left needs to take the issue seriously.
Playlist:
The White Stripes: "I Think I Smell a Rat"
Prince Buster: "Shaking Up Orange Street"
Salt N Pepa: "None of Your Business"
Rolling Stones: "Not Fade Away"
Jared Holt: Republicans have disinformation researchers in their crosshairs
The devastating human toll of neofascist attacks on LGBTQ+ people
Marcy Wheeler: ’We should expect a Jan. 6 case against Trump’
No joke: Fox News says worrying about toxic air is woke
Digby on the debt deal | Target caves to bigots
David Pepper on how you can fight fascism in your own backyard
Oliver Willis on John Durham’s probe: ’This is a fail and we should enjoy it’
CNN’s Trump town hall debacle portends reckless 2024 election coverage
Right-wing ’parents group’ uses terror and harassment against its political foes
Media downplaying debt ceiling hostage-taking as a ’juicy political standoff’
How Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene compete for QAnon followers
Young red-state Dems are teaching their party to fight
Marcy Wheeler: Special counsel Jack Smith ’very close’ to charging Trump
Dave Karpf on how ’savvy’ tech-bros blew up their favorite bank
Violent right-wing ’groomers’ are weaponizing young Americans
Will Ron DeSantis’ culture warrior schtick play nationally?
Democracy dies in lazy journalism
This simple formula can stop emboldened far-right extremists in their tracks
How conservative ’culture wars’ whitewash glaring American fascism
Biden, Democrats are fortunate in their opponents
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