70: Heather McGhee - An Encore of My Best Podcast Ever!
McGhee discusses her powerful book, The Sum of Us, about how white people have been told that anything that benefits people of color hurts them - i.e. a zero-sum game. It ain't true!
18 Jul 202157min
69: Al Solo!
I just had to get some things off my chest.
11 Jul 202146min
68: Andy Slavitt On His New COVID Book - Preventable
Slavitt Explains How Trump’s Refusal to Hold Himself Accountable Caused Untold Death and Suffering
4 Jul 202154min
38: Thomas Jefferson Explains Inconsistencies in the Declaration of Independence
Al interviews our third President on the 4th of July.
2 Jul 20217min
67: George Packer on How It Got So Bad in America & How it Could Get Slightly Better
Packer dissects the 4 Americas: The Rich Right-Wing Bastards, The Smug Liberal Elites, The Pissed-Off Not-so-Bright Tea Partiers, and The Woke Social Justice Police.
27 Jun 202155min
66: Michael Harriot: Senior Writer for TheRoot.com, the Nation’s Largest Black Online Newspaper
Is America Racist? Hmm
20 Jun 202153min
65: Norm Ornstein & Tom Mann - Who Called the GOP a Sham Years Ago!
In 2012 Ornstein & Mann wrote It’s Even Worse Than It Looks. And, man, were they right!
13 Jun 20211h 5min
64: Ed Shelleby - My Communications Director–On Working for a Different Kind of Senator. Plus, a Rant on Voting Rights
Al Talks with His Senate Communications Director on Why the Franken Office was a Blast & Got Stuff Done! & Al on Democracy. Hitler didn’t end it. The Confederacy didn’t end it. Let’s not let Senate Re...
6 Jun 20211h 4min
