This week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a look at the hero worship of John McCain and the remarkable cowardice of 49 of his Senate colleagues.
Then we'll be joined by Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker, one of the intellectual forebearers of Obamacare, to talk about what might be ahead in the fight to establish universal health care in the US, now in its 105th year.
Finally, we'll talk to Kathe Pollitt, a columnist for The Nation, about a piece she wrote last week surveying how some liberals and progressives are coping after six months with Donald Trump in the White House. Their reactions are more diverse than you might imagine.
Playlist:
Foo Fighters: "My Hero (Acoustic)"
Southern Culture on the Skids: "Camelwalk"
Celine Dion: "God Bless America"
An armed Black militia claimed it stood against tyranny — the backlash was swift
‘Accountability is coming‘: Greg Sargent on the Jan. 6 Select Committee
Empathy battles schadenfreude when anti-vaxxers die from Covid
Saving Democracy Isn‘t Sexy
MAGA sets its sights on another key democracy | Lessons from the CA recall
How the rural north came to embrace the Confederacy
Disinformation expert: We‘re witnessing a ‘global far-right power-grab‘
Here's what people who take Covid seriously should know about their risk with Delta
America's pro-war press is losing its collective mind over Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal
Tucker Carlson is mainstreaming the far-right's infatuation with Viktor Orbán
How the pandemic broke your brain (and how to fix it)
Neofascists are putting in the work to change America -- will their opponents do the same?
Why have Republicans and their media allies failed to lay a glove on Joe Biden?
Biden, Dems move a bold progressive agenda toward the end zone
How to beat back a soft coup
Can Republicans' latest racial panic deliver them a midterm win?
Ammon Bundy is poised to ignite America's next violent insurrection
Anthropologist explains today's far-right: 'Fascism is scary because it can transform itself'
Inside the right-wing smear machine targeting Black Lives Matter
Right-wing doctors are fighting to keep your kids unvaccinated
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