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Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Record Reveals Both Hope and Cynicism (Part 2)
PoliticsIn the second part of the “Scheer Intelligence” interview with Jonathan Alter, the author of “His Very Best” examines the former president’s mixed foreign policy record.
Jimmy Carter's Lifelong Efforts to Atone for White America's Sins (Part 1)
BooksRaised in privilege amidst the barbarism of segregation, the oft-maligned president eventually embraced the New South liberalism that just swept his native Georgia’s election.
Death by UFO at Heaven’s Gate: A Dark Fable for Christmas
HollywoodClay Tweel’s HBO Max documentary on the New Age “cult of cults” that claimed dozens of lives raises powerful questions about the checkered histories of various religions.
How Reagan paved the way for Trump
PoliticsMatt Tyrnauer, director of the devastating Showtime documentary blockbuster “The Reagans,” reveals how Donald Trump was the logical heir to the Reagan Revolution beginning with his…
What Aaron Sorkin Got Wrong in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
ArtsHistorian Jon Wiener, who wrote “Conspiracy in the Streets” on the subject of the Netflix film, sets the record straight on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”
How the Democratic Party Became a Vehicle of Aristocracy
PoliticsIn the second part of a two-part interview, Thomas Frank explores how anti-populism made liberals comfortable with plutocracy.
Benjamin Madley and a California Genocide
PoliticsRobert Scheer sits down with professor and author Benjamin Madley to talk about a little known part of California's history.
Don’t Believe Anything You Were Told About Populism
PoliticsThomas Frank examines the history of American populism, and how it was distorted by Democrats and co-opted by Republicans.
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