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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Today's anger rooted in Enlightenment ideas of democracy

    These days, there’s populist anger behind Donald Trump’s election, anger against immigrants and refugees. There’s ISIS and terrorism. If all this seems unprecedented, it isn’t. A new book traces the roots of our current fury.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 9, 2017 • 1 min read

    These days, there’s populist anger behind Donald Trump’s election, anger against immigrants and refugees. There’s ISIS and terrorism. If all this seems unprecedented, it isn’t. A new book traces the roots of our current fury.

    The full episode

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    Trump's new immigration rules and unconventional phone calls
    1. 0:00Phoenix woman becomes lightning rod for Trump's new policy on undocumented immigrants
    2. 9:47State Dept. nervous about Trump's unconventional phone calls
    3. 18:18Mayor Garcetti aims to make LA 3 degrees cooler
    4. 27:54Today's anger rooted in Enlightenment ideas of democracyYou’re reading this
    5. 43:43Required for US entry: social media passwords?
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Author, "Age of Anger: A History of the Present”

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    The full episode

    4 of 5
    Trump's new immigration rules and unconventional phone calls
    1. 0:00Phoenix woman becomes lightning rod for Trump's new policy on undocumented immigrants
    2. 9:47State Dept. nervous about Trump's unconventional phone calls
    3. 18:18Mayor Garcetti aims to make LA 3 degrees cooler
    4. 27:54Today's anger rooted in Enlightenment ideas of democracyYou’re reading this
    5. 43:43Required for US entry: social media passwords?
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