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    Trump's Hush-Money Judge Has Already Made Some Good Rulings

    Trump's Hush-Money Judge Has Already Made Some Good Rulings

    This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie take a deep dive into the first week of Trump’s historic trial in New York. Plus! Former White House Social Secretary Deesha Dyer is here to talk about her new book and reflect on her time in the West Wing. Then, Mother Jones’ national voting rights correspondent, Ari Berman, joins the show to discuss his new book—and how the 1787 Constitutional Convention still affects us today.
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    Trump Isn’t a Style Icon. That Title Belongs to This Pair

    Trump Isn’t a Style Icon. That Title Belongs to This Pair

    The New Abnormal team give their picks for the most fashionable former president and first lady—and it is not Donald and Melania Trump. Plus! Mexican historian Ana Raquel Minian talks to Andy Levy about her new book In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States.
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    • 25 min
    NYC Judge Needs to Treat Trump Like the Mafia Boss He Is

    NYC Judge Needs to Treat Trump Like the Mafia Boss He Is

    The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy have some advice for the judge handling former President Donald Trump’s New York City hush-money trial: Treat it exactly the same as a high-profile mob case. Then, a conversation with Medhi Hasan about his new media venture, Zeteo, which launched on Monday. Plus! Jonathan V. Last, an editor at The Bulwark, joins the program to talk about his recent presidential rankings.


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    GOP Is Throwing Out ‘Catastrophic’ Candidates to Democracy

    GOP Is Throwing Out ‘Catastrophic’ Candidates to Democracy

    This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Danielle Moodie talks to Andrea Miller, the founding board member of the Center for Common Ground, about the importance of the black vote in the South for Democrats in this election. Plus! The Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell gives us the details on the people still investing in Trump Media & Technology Group despite its rapidly plummeting stock price.
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    The Dirty Little Gun Secret Behind MAGA World’s Migrant Hysteria

    The Dirty Little Gun Secret Behind MAGA World’s Migrant Hysteria

    For all of Donald Trump’s incessant fear-mongering about migrants fueling crime in the United States, he has yet to ask one very important question: What is driving the violence that is making so many on the other side of the border desperate to flee in the first place? That’s the question The New Abnormal team posed to Ieva Jusionyte, author of Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border, on this Sunday’s episode—and his answer might not sit well with team MAGA.
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    The Wild Backstory Behind Trumpworld’s Newest Toadie

    The Wild Backstory Behind Trumpworld’s Newest Toadie

    This week, The New Abnormal
    introduces you to a relatively new face in the pantheon of Trumpworld toadies:
    Steven Cheung, Trump’s principal spokesperson and de facto enforcer. Plus, a conversation with New Republic staff writer Melissa Gira Grant about a largely forgotten 1873 law, called the Comstock Act, that could be used to outlaw virtually all abortions across America. 

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    • 1 hr 3 min

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