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Guest: John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) writes the widely acclaimed Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack.  He is the author of When the Clock Broke:  Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
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Guest: DW Gibson is the author of several books including The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy, and his latest, One Week To Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests
He serves as director of Art Omi: Writers in Ghent, New York, and he co-founded Sangam House, a writers’ residency in India, along with Arshia Sattar.

Photo credit: Steve Kaiser, Seattle, US – WTO protests 1999 on Wikipedia 
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Guest: Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and her latest, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic:  Reconstruction, 1860-1920.
 

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Part I. Joseph Stiglitz vs Friedrich von Hayek: One Nobel Prize Winning Economist Takes On Another
Guest: Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist.  He served as chief economist of the World Bank.  Currently, he teaches at Columbia University and a Senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.  He is the author of several books including his latest, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.
Part II. Biden’s Move to Seal the Border 
Guest: Todd Miller is an independent journalist and author of several books including Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and his latest Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders.
 
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Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He’s the author of several books including, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America; Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics; and his latest, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It.

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Guest: Anthony D’Agostino is an Emeritus Professor of History at San Francisco State University.  He is an expert on the history of the Russian Revolution and the Cold War and the author of several books including Soviet Succession Struggles: Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev published in 1988 and republished in 2024.
 
 
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