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The Week in Trump: When Is a Trial Not a Trial, a Hoax Not a Hoax, and a Big Trade Deal Neither Big Nor a Trade Deal?
As the Senate impeachment trial looms, Republicans seem not to understand what a trial is. They don’t want witnesses. They don’t want evidence. They especially don’t want witnesses or facts that might further implicate the president in crimes. But if…
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The Soleimani Killing Was the First Wag-the-Dog Episode of the Trump 2020 Campaign…Whose Dog Will Be Next?
The president has no foreign policy expertise, no advisors, no morals, no scruples and he is in deep political hot water at home. So naturally, he wags the dog with an attack on Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He does it…
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Why the Impeachment Trial Might Be the High Point of Donald Trump’s Year
If and when Nancy Pelosi decides to sends the articles of impeachment to the Senate, the odds of a fair trial are slim to none. (Aw, who are we kidding? They’re zero.) Trump will be acquitted. He will have a…
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Have We Just Bumbled into Another War in the Middle East?
In the days since President Donald Trump ordered the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the presidents’s spokespeople have taken to the airwaves to claim that we are safer with the Iranian who had the death of hundreds of Americans…
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Two Years Later, We Are In a Constitutional Crisis
For Two Years, Rosa Brooks had remained optimistic that despite all that was happening in the Trump administration over the past three years, a full-on constitutional crisis could be avoided. That changed with our episode on October 11, 2019. In…
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Deep State Radio Episodes – March 2019
We continue to look back on Deep State Radio episodes from 2019. Negotiations in Hanoi ultimately failed, but Kim Jong Un stayed in Vietnam for an official visit. The Venezuela Presidential crisis escalated. Theresa May continued to suffer defeats on…
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Deep State Radio Episodes – February 2019
February is the shortest month of the year, but it proved big on the news front. The government shutdown ended, but the news just kept coming. Protests in Venezuela to remove Nicolás Maduro from office were ongoing. Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar…
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Remembering the Victims of Trump and the GOP
It’s a good time of the year to remember that everything that makes you angry about the US and our politics today, about Trump and his accomplices is a source of real, often profound human suffering for the countless victims…
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Deep State Radio Episodes – January 2019
It’s been a wild ride. The news didn’t take a break in 2019 and we’ve done our best to help you stay on top of all of the developments. We’re so grateful to all of our listeners, panelists, guests and…
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Other than the End of the World and the Fall of Democracy, How Did You Like the Decade, Mrs. Lincoln?
In the last episode of not just 2019 but of the entire decade for Deep State Radio, we gather Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law, Stephen Walt of Harvard’s Kennedy School, David Sanger of the New York Times and Ed Luce…
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Is it Too Late for Democracy in America?
As the last century began, few could imagine a world without empires or monarchs. The generation that followed could not imagine global economic collapse or the rise of fascism. The horror of the Holocaust was an beyond the the conception…
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Rep. Eric Swalwell: Don’t Assume McConnell Holds the Winning Hand on the Shape of the Senate Trial
During this special 20 minute conversation with one of the standout stars of the impeachment process, California Congressman Eric Swalwell, he parries the latest jibes from the White House against Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Majority in the House by…