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This is Hell!

Summary: Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.

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 Anti-politics, violence and disorientation in the age of Trump. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:54

Cultural critic Henry Giroux examines the endstage politics of Donald Trump. PLUS: Rotten History

 The neoliberal arm of police abuse / Disturbing the circumstance | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:38

Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton explore the violent new dimension of policing in America. / Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton explore the violent new dimension of policing in America.

 Lost in the spiral: How American lost control of the terror war. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:58

Writer Mark Danner explains how America lost its identity in the pursuit of endless war. PLUS: Question from Hell!

 The media’s millenial blindspot / RE: Hillary’s email investigation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:55

Writer Sarah Kendzior points out the media's blindspot when covering young people. / Journalist Marcy Wheeler finds power and secrecy at play in Hillary's email scandal.

 Jeremy Corbyn’s battle for control of the Labour Party. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:36

Writer Richard Seymour explains how Jeremy Corbyn reclaimed the Labour Party for the left. Richard is author of "Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics" from Verso Books. PLUS: Rotten History

 Why White workers left the Democratic party / The mob intolerable | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:45

Historian Judith Stein explains how liberals turned their backs on New Deal politics. / Jeff Dorchen gets smug about smugness.

 The long history of America’s war for the Greater Middle East. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:14

Historian Andrew Bacevich explores four decades of American intervention, and failure, in the Middle East. PLUS: Question from Hell!

 Striking teachers massacred in Oaxaca / Political rollbacks in post-coup Brazil | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:33

Live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen reports on a teacher's strike that left nine dead in Oaxaca. / Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier surveys land rights rollbacks in post-coup, pre-Olymics Brazil.

 Examining the origins, and persistence of racist thought in America. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 7:17

Historian Ibram X. Kendi traces racist thought in America back to the birth of the nation. Ibram is author of "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" from PublicAffairs. PLUS: Rotten History

 Against a neoliberal education / Blood from a skull. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:17

The Undercommoning collective make the case for a radical rethinking of the university. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tells us what it's like to drink blood from a skull.

 The complex military and industrial reach of the Bechtel Corporation. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Writer Sally Denton examines Bechtel's role in the building of the American empire. PLUS: Question from Hell!

 A Brexit report from London / #KeepItOn fights against internet shutdowns | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:57

Our Man in London, David Skalinder files one last report from the UK, fittingly on the Brexit vote. / Access Now's Peter Micek explains the stakes in the battle against internet shutdowns.

 The policies of White rage counter Black achievment, step by step. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:34

Historian Carol Anderson surveys a long history of White rage in the face of Black progress. Carol is author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide from Bloomsbury. / PLUS: Rotten History

 Post-prison financial punishment for the poor / The Hillary mistake | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:55

Sociologist Alexes Harris outlines the criminal justice system's financial punishment of poor Americans. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen continues his hostile plea for an end to hostilities.

 Exploring and understanding America’s history of Indian slavery. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:00

Historian Andrés Reséndez chronicles the long, hidden history of Indian enslavement in America. PLUS: Question from Hell!

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