Joshua Holland: Recent Episodes
Joshua Holland
One of the 527 women running for Congress this year is Deb Haaland, in New Mexico’s first district. Haaland is running on a bold, unapologetically progressive platform, calling for aggressive action to combat global warming, Medicare-for-All, a federal jobs guarantee, universal childcare and pre-K education, expanding Social Security and criminal justice reform.
One of the 527 women running for Congress this year is Deb Haaland, in New Mexico’s first district. Haaland is running on a bold, unapologetically progressive platform, calling for aggressive action to combat global warming, Medicare-for-All, a federal jobs guarantee, universal childcare and pre-K education, expanding Social Security and criminal justice reform.
The Nation speaks with David Faris, a political scientist at Roosevelt University who authored a new book titled, "It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics."
This week, Donald Trump repeatedly called for arming teachers. It's his Big Idea to contain gun violence, despite the fact that all mass shootings, on and off of school campuses, represented only 3.7 percent of gun homicides last year.
University of Cincinnati legal scholar Mark Godsey examines why the system fights so hard to keep innocent people in prison.
An interview with The Guardian's Luke Harding, author of "Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win."
Madawi Al-Rasheed, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, talks about Mohammad bin Salman, also known as "MBS" -- the brash, young Saudi Crown Prince who consolidated an enormous amount of power in recent weeks by detaining over a dozen of his royal rivals and other senior Saudi officials. Al-Rasheed will help us understand not only what's going on within the kingdom, but also the larger regional context of MBS' dangerous power play.
There has been a lot of talk of Trump’s “sabotage” of the ACA, much of it focusing on those cost-sharing reductions. But in an interview with The Nation, SB, a senior policy advisor at the Center for American Progress who has been tracking these issues, says that it goes much further than that.