Asha Rangappa on Finding Reassurance in the Protests

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Asha Rangappa on Finding Reassurance in the Protests

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Former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa, a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, discusses the ways in which social media platforms are being weaponized and how the Trump administration has botched the handling of both Covid-19 and George Floyd’s killing.

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'Liberalism and Its Discontents’ with Francis Fukuyama: Freedom House’s annual Freedom in the World survey notes that liberalism has rapidly declined each year for the last 16 years. And its precipitous downturn is more evident now than ever amid waning respect for individual rights, increased growth of autocracies and most recently in the seismic Russian invasion of Ukraine. Decades ago, political scientist and professor Francis Fukuyama was one of the preeminent scholars to predict the marked impending fall of liberal societies. He serves as a senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a bestselling author of numerous books, including one published in March 2022 aptly titled, “Liberalism and Its Discontents.” He joins WITHpod to discuss why liberalism doesn’t always live up to its own principles, challenges from the right and the left and why our democracy will be under continued threat without a revitalized approach to its core tenets. by Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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Revisiting Pipeline Protests, A Sacred Family Heirloom, and Discrimination During War: This week on Our Body Politic, Farai looks back on the 2016-2017 Dakota Access Pipeline protests with investigative journalist Jenni Monet to discuss activism among indegeonous peoples in America and across the globe. Farai also talks with MacArthur Grant Award winner, Harvard professor and author Tiya Miles about one family heirloom from the enslavement period that remarkably stood the test of time. Then in our weekly segment "Sippin' the Political Tea" Farai is joined by Christina Greer, political scientist and Associate Professor at Fordham University and Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, a Ph.D. student in History at the University of Pennsylvania, as they examine the discrimination and other barriers international students and also non-white Ukrainanians are facing in result of Putin's invasion. by Our Body Politic
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Inside with Jen Psaki - July 2, 2023: Jen Psaki is joined by Pennsylvania Governor and former Attorney General Josh Shapiro to discuss the fallout of the Supreme Court's rulings on affirmative action, student loans and LGBTQ+ protections, plus the role Pennsylvania will have in the 2024 presidential election. Jen also chats with U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the Biden administration's next steps to help millions of people affected by the student loan ruling. MSNBC legal analyst Melissa Murray also joins the show to weigh in the dangerous effect of the Court's latest decisions. And Jen catches up with Danica Roem, Virginia’s first transgender delegate, to reflect on issues facing LGBTQ+ Americans. by Inside with Jen Psaki
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